# The teaching of Texan superiority in schools **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 25, 2022, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teaching-of-texan-superiority-in-schools/966808 "2022-06-25T03:40:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2022, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teaching-of-texan-superiority-in-schools/966808/1 "2022-06-25T03:40:14Z")
This is one of the Texas Republican platform proposals, and I am wondering what is meant by it. Superior to other states? Other countries? Superior in what way? ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2022, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teaching-of-texan-superiority-in-schools/966808/2 "2022-06-25T03:45:20Z")
Rich Hall’s “[You can go to hell … I’m going to Texas](https://youtu.be/oJeaLjE24zA)” Highly recommended ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2022, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teaching-of-texan-superiority-in-schools/966808/3 "2022-06-25T03:51:53Z")
Yeah, I’ve seen that before. I’m wondering what the Texas Republicans mean by it, though. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2022, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teaching-of-texan-superiority-in-schools/966808/4 "2022-06-25T03:52:00Z")
Has to be BBQ. Nothing else comes to mind. Even there I’d say Western North Carolina has them edged out. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2022, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teaching-of-texan-superiority-in-schools/966808/5 "2022-06-25T04:02:57Z")
Of all the people I have met from all over the country, Texans are the ones who least need any more instruction on how superior they are to everyone else. No one else but a Texan never misses a chance to remind you E’s a Texan and how great you should think that is. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2022, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teaching-of-texan-superiority-in-schools/966808/6 "2022-06-25T04:11:05Z")
Please note that I posted this in Factual Questions because I am looking for what the Texas Republican Party meant when they brought it to the table. Doers anybody hav any insight as to what they might have meant? ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2022, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teaching-of-texan-superiority-in-schools/966808/7 "2022-06-25T04:30:22Z")
I’m convinced the answer is this: The Texas GOP, itself doesn’t know. [This](https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-republican-convention-2022/) explains that better than I can: > The platform, meanwhile, always contains ludicrously extreme planks and is mostly irrelevant when it comes to actually passing bills. The platform-drafting process at the Texas Republican convention is a sort of day-care program for the grassroots. For many right-wingers, this is the highlight of their year. Texans who get their news from Facebook threads and chain emails gather together, load up a document with their complaints, pass it, and then elected officials throw it in the trash. That elected officials don’t enact the platform is among the most common criticisms you’ll hear from those who draft it. But it would be tough for even the most ideological legislators to adopt the planks wholesale: they are always a jumble of often-contradictory messages. (The 2022 platform, for instance, opposes decriminalization of drugs but also calls for marijuana to be moved from the federal Schedule 1 to Schedule 2, which would lessen legal penalties.) In other words, it sounded good to the majority of the delegates, but there was no further thought put into it, and there’s no plan to put it into action. ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2022, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teaching-of-texan-superiority-in-schools/966808/8 "2022-06-25T05:06:48Z")
@Czarcasm, I wondered the same thing and checked the platform itself. I could be wrong, but I don’t see anything in the “Education” section or the “State Affairs” section that asserts Texas _superiority_ (just a lot of overwrought concern about the Alamo). > **[6-Permanent-Platform-Committee-FINAL-REPORT-6-16-2022.pdf](https://texasgop.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/6-Permanent-Platform-Committee-FINAL-REPORT-6-16-2022.pdf)** ---
**Author:** ![md-2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@md-2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md-2000)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2022, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teaching-of-texan-superiority-in-schools/966808/9 "2022-06-25T12:28:30Z")
Old joke about the Texan whining that making Alaska a state meant Texas was only the second-biggest state. The Alaskan says “Shut up, or we’ll divide our state in half and you’ll be the third-largest state.” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2022, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teaching-of-texan-superiority-in-schools/966808/10 "2022-06-25T13:33:32Z")
[Moderating] I don’t think a factual answer exists, here. Moving to P&E. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2022, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teaching-of-texan-superiority-in-schools/966808/11 "2022-06-25T13:41:54Z")
I just skimmed the whole thing and don’t see any mention of Texas superiority either. (It does seem to be a collection of the wish lists of everyone and anyone.) ---
**Author:** ![cocoadudedagreyhound](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@cocoadudedagreyhound](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cocoadudedagreyhound)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2022, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teaching-of-texan-superiority-in-schools/966808/12 "2022-06-26T04:21:29Z")
Superior in being a state for being a bunch of losers lol. I used to live in Texas (Austin) and even Austin was a wanna be city. Mostly yuppies who suck at tech and couldnt make it in a real city. Texans have such huge egos too. Nobody gives a \*\*\*\* about their dumb cowboy boots and jeans, we arent living in the wild wild west anymore outside of their backwoods bubble. Texas is just a joke now pure and simple. Between Texas and Florida, they are both in competition of being some of the worst states to live in. They are both starting to make Alabama and Lousiana look like paradises in comparison. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2022, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teaching-of-texan-superiority-in-schools/966808/13 "2022-06-26T04:30:07Z")
I thought it was going to be about their superior policing of active shooter situations, or their superior energy grid, no? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2022, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teaching-of-texan-superiority-in-schools/966808/14 "2022-06-26T04:31:17Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I just skimmed the whole thing and don’t see any mention of Texas superiority either. (It does seem to be a collection of the wish lists of everyone and anyone.) It doesn’t even contain the letter string “superior”. What I do find is in the list of things that education must impart, is _“understanding why Texas and America are exceptional and have positively contributed to our world”_. So basically Texas exceptionalism on top of American exceptionalism to be both part of what you must learn.