Lucky you weren’t in Houston. 
Crowded, hot, and humid? 
And that’s on a good day. I loved living in Houston, though. I might have been the only one who did.
I loved living near Houston myself.
No doubt. I heard some woman caller on C-Span this morning call for revolution, she was from the South somewhere.
Appropriate Onion article: South Postpones Rising Again For Yet Another Year
Well… I, for one, admire the dogged persistence of Texas patriots like the ones mentioned by the OP.
As they say down there:
If at first y’all don’t secede, try, try again!*
- My own little brain came up with that allllll by myself but I’d be surprised if it hasn’t been thought of before. It’s probably on a bumper sticker somewhere.
Hey now, no secession jokes. That’s, like, worse than killing Hitler’s grandma, or something.
I see the thread title, and I keep thinking:
Texans first, Americans second, women and children can fend for themselves!
It’s amusing, but the other 49 states are not all smaller than Texas, though I can understand why a Texan would have this particular blind spot.
I lived in the Houston area for five years and never heard the Texas independence stuff taken seriously, even among my redneck neighbors. The few who really believed in the Republic of Texas stuff were mostly in jail on tax evasion charges.
Growing up in Staten Island, N.Y., there was serious sentiment for secession (Islanders even voted in favor of it some years after I left), but that was not a case of “Staten Island first, the U.S. second”, but rather “Screw all you other NYC boroughs who get better service than we do”.
Is there any other state that even comes close to the attitude expressed in “It’s hard to be humble when you’re from Texas”?
(And that should really be “It’s hard to spell humble when you’re from Texas.”)
It’s certainly possible to be a Humble Texan.
Well, I know one city that does. The City.
I presume that the antecedent to this post is this:
So, are you talking about San Francisco? I’ve never noticed anything particularly arrogant about them. Well, barring the fact that they refer to themselves as The City.
San Francisco? The City?
No, no. THE CITY.
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