maybe by Texas standards.
I’m glad it’s not just Texas then! 
I graduated from good old South Houston a few years before you did; would have been Dobie, but that was far in the future. Throughout my years in the PISD, we never said the Texas Pledge of Allegiance–just the US one. (And no prayer, except for “invocations” before graduation & the occasional football game.) Wikipedia says that “under God” was added in 2007; was Ricky Perry behind the wider use of the state pledge? At least Lone Star Chauvinism has kept any Confederate symbols off the flag.
Ray Wiley Hubbard finally got over the infamy of writing “Up Against The Wall, Redneck Mother”–then he wrote “Screw You, We’re From Texas.” (He was born in Oklahoma.)* The problem with irony is, not everybody gets it…*
Texas shapes for tanning beds really freak me out. We have* no* shortage of natural sunshine here…
Hey, we can’t all aspire to Bio-Dome levels of hilarity. 
Texas, yes. Hawaiians I haven’t had too much experience with, but I’ve heard second-hand from enough people that they are annoyingly smug that I believe it.
New York City may be the world’s epicenter for absurd levels of self-regard, and as someone above said it’s enough to taint the whole state.
I’ve heard that Mainers (“Mainiacs”??) have a little bit of the smug thing going on, but haven’t experienced it much myself.
I vote for New South Wales.
What?
I’m proud of Florida. I identify as British just as much as I do American, but I’ll take Florida over all other political subdivisions.
I am fucking embarrssed by Florida a lot, though.
ETA: Totally agreed on NYC/NYS. There’s a line in Keeping the Faith about how “New Yorkers think people who live elsewhere are just fooling themselves” that almost made me puke. Much as Samuel Johnson’s declaration that “when a man is tired of London he is tired of life” would have if I’d been around to hear it.
Fuck New York City.
We also have Yosemite, Mammoth Mountain, Sequoia and Kings Canyon and the Colorado River…oh wait, we diverted that from Colorado for drinking water.
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What about the ‘Yoopers’? Eh?
“And dat’s when I seen him, da thurdy point buck!”
Slight nitpick: Da Yoopers are indeed from the UP, but Turdy Point Buck was done by Bananas at Large, who are from Wisconsin. From a town that’s practically my backyard in fact.
And I’ll even admit that some WI natives are too full of themselves, but we tend to brag about our own humility. Ironic, I know.
+1. It’s really a passive aggressive pride. They don’t say anything about it, but post it everywhere.
That’s because no one can say “Oregonian” without laughing.
It’s not so much bragging on California. It’s a perception that we think we’re cooler than anyone else because we’re Califormians.
That sounds pretty close. And even if we don’t say it, it’s obvious that we assume it. Although, to be fair, when I was living in Ohio, there were a lot of trends that came through that were lagged. That is, they hit California first and came through Ohio three to five years later. So it’s really easy to assume “it’s not the way you do things . . . yet.”
I never could have a dress for success discussion and take it seriously. That might just be me, though.
Yeah, that’s been my experience too.
Well, I come from Idaho and I…I…I’ve obviously no reason to post anything in this thread. Sorry.
2 shots from that annoying-ass commercial are in NEVADA!
Frankly, we’re getting a little tired of you Idahoans lording your potatoes over us like y’all are the damn potato kings or something.
How many Virginians does it take to screw in a light bulb? Three, one to change the bulb and two to remember how great the old bulb was. MM28, FFV (First Families of Virginia), but the answer to the OP is Texas.
Clearly Texas is the winner.
Here in Rhode Island the only thing we’re proud of is being a unit of measurement.
Q. How many Rhodies does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A. Both of them.
But, how did they get inside a light bulb? 
Preach it, Brothers!
As for a Texas Pledge of Allegiance, that’s a new one on me too. I never encountered that in my West Texas schools of the 1960s and 1970s. This is the first I’ve heard of such a thing, but I’m not surprised.
While living in New Mexico, I didn’t get the sense of arrogance you get with Texas. Everyone enjoyed New Mexico but were pretty laid back about it too.
In Hawaii, the locals may be a bit provincial, many never having been anywhere else even – I knew some who had not even been off the island they were born on – and it’s such a great place that they could be much more obnoxious about it if they wanted to. But I think they know if they played it up too much, then even more mainlanders would be moving there.
Yeah, that’s gotta be it - no European immigrants elsewhere in the States, let alone Germans/Prussians :smack: