# I'm realizing Texas is different. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 16, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384 "2013-01-16T15:08:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384/21 "2013-01-16T18:23:49Z")
Whenever I hear people “complaining” about Texas, it usually just makes me want to move there. Oklahoma, too. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384/22 "2013-01-16T18:33:56Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Well, I’m a native Houstonian and I remember the Katrina refugees that hit the ground immediately asking how to sign up for welfare. Yeah, I remember that too. Minute they pimp-rolled off the bus and their platform soles hit the pavement, it was all “where all the free money at, _jive turkey_!” I just stood there in disbelief while they fluffed their enormous hair with their Black Power Fist afro picks. It was like a scene from a bad movie. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384/23 "2013-01-16T18:35:47Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Yeah, I remember that too. Minute they pimp-rolled off the bus and their platform soles hit the pavement, it was all “where all the free money at, _jive turkey_!” I just stood there in disbelief while they fluffed their enormous hair with their Black Power Fist afro picks. It was like a scene from a bad movie. You misspelled “best movie ever.” ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384/24 "2013-01-16T19:02:56Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Yea sure, I surely wasn’t discussing in a light hearted way that Texas is well different from a lot of the rest of the USA in some ways, some annoying. Clearly I think everyone in Texas(including my family) are murderous cretins. > > God everyone here has giant sticks up their butts. Please point out the light hearted part of your OP. I really can’t see why you think Texas is so special about its (mis)treatment of the poor and the uninsured. And I’ll remove my giant stick when you remove yours. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384/25 "2013-01-16T19:08:57Z")
We love Texas (especially San Antonio). The economy is good, the people are friendly, and the weather is great. I’ll take hot over snow any day of the week and twice on Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384/26 "2013-01-16T19:28:47Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Yeah, I remember that too. Minute they pimp-rolled off the bus and their platform soles hit the pavement, it was all “where all the free money at, _jive turkey_!” I just stood there in disbelief while they fluffed their enormous hair with their Black Power Fist afro picks. It was like a scene from a bad movie. You do paint a vivid picture. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384/27 "2013-01-16T19:41:43Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Not shocked that stuff like this happens in Texas though. > > [http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201\_162-57337766/mom-denied-food-stamps-shoots-kids-kills-self/](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57337766/mom-denied-food-stamps-shoots-kids-kills-self/) > > In Texas I’m like some whacko left wing nut, in the northern US I’m apparently some hard core right wing nut. Its funny. In a [follow-up](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/10/rachelle-grimmer_n_1140631.html) we learn Ms. Grimmer’s children remained very critical and comatose, dying a few days later. I blame liberal gun haters. If Ms. Grimmer had been able to buy a real Texas gun, she’d have been able to put the children out of their misery. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384/28 "2013-01-16T20:05:40Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > We love Texas (especially San Antonio). The economy is good, the people are friendly, and the weather is great. I’ll take hot over snow any day of the week and twice on Sunday. On this I have to disagree. I have family and friends in Texas and I always like visiting there but I couldn’t live with Texas weather. It’s nice when I go there in the middle of the winter and it’s pleasantly warm - but most of the year, I find it ungodly hot. I’d rather live in New York where we have four seasons. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384/29 "2013-01-16T20:17:13Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I also am aware that in the areas where FEMA located Katrina refugees, the crime rates went up significantly. My understanding is that it wasn’t that New Orleanians are inherently more criminally inclined than Houstonians. It’s more like both cities had an established criminal class and things were relatively quiet - the criminals knew their place, had filled the niches in their city’s criminal economy, and generally followed the unofficial rules of their city’s criminal system. But the Katrina evacuation dumped a large part of New Orleans’ criminals (along with a majority of non-criminals) into Houston’s established crime system. Which essentially mean Houston had two overlapping criminal societies competing against each other. So there was a big spike in crime and violence as the New Orleans immigrant criminals and the Houston native criminals “worked out” a new equilibrium. You would have seen the same phenomena if a hurricane had forced a mass evacuation of Houstonians to New Orleans. Only in that case, it would have been Louisianians complaining about how those Texans had brought all the crime with them to New Orleans. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384/30 "2013-01-16T21:05:05Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Under Texas law, hospital ERs cannot refuse to treat emergency cases. I’ll grant that they move you to Ben Taub or John Sealy as quickly as possible, but they will treat you. Let’s not forget about [Shrub’s Texas Death Panels](http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/HS/htm/HS.166.htm#166.046) (see section 166.046 (e)). ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384/31 "2013-01-16T21:18:27Z")
I grew up in Oregon and moved to Houston a few years ago and have love it ever since. Texas and especially Houston is a fantastic diverse state full of cultures from around the globe. It’s an amazing place and I’m lucky to live here. Of course, I am white and middle class 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384/32 "2013-01-16T21:19:32Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Texas very much enforces public intoxication laws with much enthusiasm. I’ve seen people in other states say you can’t get arrested for PI even if you’re fall down drunk. This has not been my experience. I’ve always been of the opinion that if you get arrested for a PI, it’s because you’re a loud mouth asshole who couldn’t stay muted for the five to ten minutes you had to talk to the police. ---
**Author:** ![andrewbub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@andrewbub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewbub)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384/33 "2013-01-16T22:44:28Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > If you don’t love it, GTFO. i lived in dallas for 11 months, didn’t like it, and i got TFO! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384/34 "2013-01-16T23:17:52Z")
> [@grude](#): > > God everyone here has giant sticks up their butts. Of course they’re giant sticks. Everything’s bigger in Texas. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384/35 "2013-01-17T01:48:25Z")
Are there NO native Texans who aren’t enamored of the state? Because I’ve never been a fan and if I could afford to, I’d move somewhere else in a heartbeat. \< dons bulletproof vest \> ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384/36 "2013-01-17T02:50:33Z")
Doesn’t Chuck Norris live in Texas? That pretty much says it all. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384/37 "2013-01-17T04:08:48Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Let’s not forget about [Shrub’s Texas Death Panels](http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/HS/htm/HS.166.htm#166.046) (see section 166.046 (e)). Go back and read it for comprehension, Muffin. No death panels to be found therein, except in the sweaty little brains of liberals who think it is so cutesy-poo to refer to George Bush as Shrub. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384/38 "2013-01-17T04:10:03Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > Are there NO native Texans who aren’t enamored of the state? Because I’ve never been a fan and if I could afford to, I’d move somewhere else in a heartbeat. \ Here, I won’t let it hit you in the ass as you leave. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384/39 "2013-01-17T04:19:46Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Go back and read it for comprehension, Muffin. No death panels to be found therein, except in the sweaty little brains of liberals who think it is so cutesy-poo to refer to George Bush as Shrub. Gee, Clothy, I never realized that you were a lawyer skilled in reading and drafting legislation and trained in health-care law. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384/40 "2013-01-17T04:37:40Z")
[Stupid Texas Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBe5Dx6kSJg), by the Austin Lounge Lizards. > [@](#): > > By God we’re so darn proud to be from Texas–yahoo! > Even of our pride we’re proud and we’re proud of that pride, too > Our pride about our home state is the proudest pride indeed > And we’re proud to be Americans, until we can secede > > One more stupid song about Texas > You’ve heard it all before so sing along > Biggest belt buckles and boasts, love that big old Texas toast > Let’s sing another stupid Texas song You’ll start understand Texas when you understand that most Texans will agree with every word of that song, and _not care_. You may try to diss us with it, but we’ll be singing it louder than y’all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384.md?page=3)