# Top states whose denizens are way too proud of themselves. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 20, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-states-whose-denizens-are-way-too-proud-of-themselves/661508 "2013-06-20T21:18:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-states-whose-denizens-are-way-too-proud-of-themselves/661508/41 "2013-06-21T08:06:24Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Speaking as a person who grew up in Oregon and moved to Texas, this perception is absolutely 100% accurate. Texans are excessively proud of their state. I can’t imagine anyone walking around with a tattoo of Oregon on their arms, but I would bet there are probably 1000’s upon 1000’s of Texas tattoos out there. Hell, you can get little texas tanning stickers to wear a the tanning booth. Is it true that the state’s chief export is belt buckles? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-states-whose-denizens-are-way-too-proud-of-themselves/661508/42 "2013-06-21T10:54:30Z")
When I grew up in Texas, the Pledge was to the USA Stars and Stripes. I’ve never heard of a Texas flag pledge. But the indoctrination does begin very early in grade school. It is a fun state to draw. And there are ads, radio and TV, proclaiming that anything from Ford trucks to little chocolate donuts are “Texas Proud” ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-states-whose-denizens-are-way-too-proud-of-themselves/661508/43 "2013-06-21T12:35:34Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > When I grew up in Texas, the Pledge was to the USA Stars and Stripes. I’ve never heard of a Texas flag pledge. > > But the indoctrination does begin very early in grade school. It is a fun state to draw. And there are ads, radio and TV, proclaiming that anything from Ford trucks to little chocolate donuts are “Texas Proud” In the school I was a teacher at for 2 years (a very large High school in the 6th largest school district in Texas, not some podunk town) we pledged allegience to the US flag and the Texas flag, every single day. The state pledge is something like, “I pledge allegiance, to thee Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.” ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-states-whose-denizens-are-way-too-proud-of-themselves/661508/44 "2013-06-21T12:43:06Z")
Indiana’s Hoosiers occasionally try at this but are doomed to fail: “More Vice-Presidents than any other state!” Really? Veeps, uh, not so wow. “The Indianapolis 500: The Greatest Spectacle In Racing” And now I hear: “Isn’t that part of NASCAR?” “Humorists Kurt Vonnegut, David Letterman, Red Skelton and Kin Hubbard”. So, what state doesn’t have humorists? And has anyone outside of Indiana heard of Kin Hubbard? and nobody even tries to mention Michael Jackson. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-states-whose-denizens-are-way-too-proud-of-themselves/661508/45 "2013-06-21T12:45:17Z")
> [@deltasigma](#): > > NEW JERSEY ROCKS!!! WOO-HOO!!! 😉 Plus, we look like [a dude in a hat](http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/fcat-new-jersey-looks-like-a-man-wearing-a-hat.195586844/). ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-states-whose-denizens-are-way-too-proud-of-themselves/661508/46 "2013-06-21T12:54:57Z")
Without looking… Texas. Allow me to say that again: Texas. Followed closely by Northern Texas, Southern Texas, Western Texas, and Eastern Texas. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-states-whose-denizens-are-way-too-proud-of-themselves/661508/47 "2013-06-21T12:57:53Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > I was thinking Arizona and maybe New Mexico would be in the top-10. No, not Arizona. I’ve been here all my life and don’t recall such behavior. I think maybe you are thinking of the _dozen Asshole Legislators_ who decided to dump our state’s image and opportunities into the garbage a few years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-states-whose-denizens-are-way-too-proud-of-themselves/661508/48 "2013-06-21T13:00:00Z")
Texas is the only _State_ I’ve seen a lot of pride about. Everywhere else it’s more regional/city pride. Even with California or New York I don’t know that I ever really hear _California_ or _New York_ pride, but you hear a lot of really prideful people from the five boroughs or from LA or the SF-Bay area. But people from some random town in California I don’t hear a lot of generic “rah rah California” pride, at least not in my experience. ---
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-states-whose-denizens-are-way-too-proud-of-themselves/661508/49 "2013-06-21T13:06:29Z")
[quote=“Alice\_The\_Goon, post:22, topic:661508”] Coloradans seem to be pretty damn smug. [QUOTE] Yes but it is more of a born-here-vs-moved-here thing. “Native” bumper stickers are common. For this contest it is clearly Texas with maybe some others in a battle for a very distant second place. > [@](#): > > I hadn’t even known it was a thing before I joined the Army and noticed firsthand the unwarranted amount of pride Texans took in the location of their mothers’ vaginas when they were pushed out. Well said, exactly my experience including the Army part. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-states-whose-denizens-are-way-too-proud-of-themselves/661508/50 "2013-06-21T13:18:26Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > In the school I was a teacher at for 2 years (a very large High school in the 6th largest school district in Texas, not some podunk town) we pledged allegience to the US flag and the Texas flag, every single day. The state pledge is something like, “I pledge allegiance, to thee Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.” So, I guess it changed then. I wonder when that started. I was in Texas schools (as a student) from 1972 to 1981. Moved back to Texas (from L.A., CA to Rusk County) in 3rd grade. Ended up PISD, graduated from South Houston High, sister went to Dobie. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-states-whose-denizens-are-way-too-proud-of-themselves/661508/51 "2013-06-21T13:20:43Z")
FWIW, I find more of that “Texas!” stuff happening from Dallas area people than from the Houston area. Houston is its own special little place, ya know? ---
**Author:** ![Dustin\_the\_Wind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f1d935/32.png) [@Dustin\_the\_Wind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dustin_the_Wind)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-states-whose-denizens-are-way-too-proud-of-themselves/661508/52 "2013-06-21T13:45:45Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Minnesotans, especially those from the Twin Cities, are unbelievably pretentious: a bunch of unsophisticated Midwestern hicks trying to act like New Yorkers. > > Wisconsin is at least as bad, but in another way: people there are just as full of themselves but don’t have the brains to act pretentious. Move the entire population of Minnesota to Wisconsin, and you’d raise the IQs of both states. > > I grew up in Minneapolis and spent an awful 18 months living in Milwaukee. I was never so glad to leave a place as I was with both of them. You couldn’t make me live in the Midwest again if you put a gun to my head. Maybe it was just you. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-states-whose-denizens-are-way-too-proud-of-themselves/661508/53 "2013-06-21T13:58:30Z")
I’m proud of my home state (Virginia) and have a “Virginia Native” decal on my vehicle, but I cant recall seeing another one. Texas, yeah, that’s the only reason for this thread to exist. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-states-whose-denizens-are-way-too-proud-of-themselves/661508/54 "2013-06-21T14:09:23Z")
I see that none of the participants in this thread have ever been within 100 miles of South Carolina. They are easily as bad as Texans. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-states-whose-denizens-are-way-too-proud-of-themselves/661508/55 "2013-06-21T14:21:58Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > I see that none of the participants in this thread have ever been within 100 miles of South Carolina. They are easily as bad as Texans. Really? Reeaaally as “bad”? Did you read my post. Are you aware of all the very specifically manufactured Texas stuff? Like the beer signs? And the tanning stickers? Are you saying that if I walked into a tanning shop in South Carolina I would find a sticker in the shape of South Carolina to wear while I’m in the booth? Proportionally, do you think the number of Texas tattoos is the same (percentage of population) as those with South Carolina tattoos? Do places like Dairy Queen and Burger King manufacture specific menus and promotions and advertisments to South Carolina like they do in Texas? I honestly am asking. I haven’t ever been near South Carolina, but I’ve just never heard of any of that either. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-states-whose-denizens-are-way-too-proud-of-themselves/661508/56 "2013-06-21T14:30:59Z")
Nah, they just have Confederate flags in their rear windows. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Learjeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Learjeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Learjeff)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-states-whose-denizens-are-way-too-proud-of-themselves/661508/57 "2013-06-21T14:31:30Z")
Yeah, Hawaiians … I have to admit, it’s kind of annoying: they ask you where you’re from, you tell them, and their eyes say “oh, that’s too bad”. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-states-whose-denizens-are-way-too-proud-of-themselves/661508/58 "2013-06-21T14:41:02Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Really? Reeaaally as “bad”? Did you read my post. Are you aware of all the very specifically manufactured Texas stuff? Like the beer signs? And the tanning stickers? Are you saying that if I walked into a tanning shop in South Carolina I would find a sticker in the shape of South Carolina to wear while I’m in the booth? Proportionally, do you think the number of Texas tattoos is the same (percentage of population) as those with South Carolina tattoos? Do places like Dairy Queen and Burger King manufacture specific menus and promotions and advertisments to South Carolina like they do in Texas? I just looked up tanning stickers. Apparently, it just leaves a pale spot in the desired shape. If Texans really want to show their pride, they should do it the other way around; cover their whole body except for a Texas-shaped cutout that would be the only area exposed to the UV rays. Done consistently, they could get a Texas-shaped tumor. Now that’s some state pride, right there. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-states-whose-denizens-are-way-too-proud-of-themselves/661508/59 "2013-06-21T14:49:35Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Really? Reeaaally as “bad”? Did you read my post. Are you aware of all the very specifically manufactured Texas stuff? Like the beer signs? And the tanning stickers? Are you saying that if I walked into a tanning shop in South Carolina I would find a sticker in the shape of South Carolina to wear while I’m in the booth? Proportionally, do you think the number of Texas tattoos is the same (percentage of population) as those with South Carolina tattoos? Do places like Dairy Queen and Burger King manufacture specific menus and promotions and advertisments to South Carolina like they do in Texas? > > I honestly am asking. I haven’t ever been near South Carolina, but I’ve just never heard of any of that either. Yes, really. They put their state flag (palmetto logo) on every. damn. thing. Cups, cars, hats, belts, pants, tee shirts, dress shirts, polo shirts, dog collars, key chains and a whole shit load of cars. They have them in blue, like the flag. They have them in orange for Clemson. They have them in garnet for the University of South Carolina. They have them in pink. Pick a color and an item. It’s available. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-states-whose-denizens-are-way-too-proud-of-themselves/661508/60 "2013-06-21T14:50:00Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I just looked up tanning stickers. Apparently, it just leaves a pale spot in the desired shape. If Texans really want to show their pride, they should do it the other way around; cover their whole body except for a Texas-shaped cutout that would be the only area exposed to the UV rays. Done consistently, they could get a Texas-shaped tumor. Now that’s some state pride, right there. Now you’ve got me wondering about bikini waxing (pube topiary?) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-states-whose-denizens-are-way-too-proud-of-themselves/661508.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-states-whose-denizens-are-way-too-proud-of-themselves/661508.md?page=4)