Seemed to fit to me!
FUCK YEW! I’M FROM TEXAS!!
Thar! That’s all that needs say’n…
Hey, it ain’t all bad. Y’all still got Molly Ivins and Jim Hightower, dontcha?
I whole-heartedly disagree with Ann Richards on most matters of political consequence (she’s a Texas Democrat, so she’s not exactly from the Ted Kennedy/Cynthia McKinney mold). But I still enjoy listening to her. But having listened to her quite a bit, I’m confused as to how you can say that she doesn’t have a funny accent.
[On George the Elder]: “He caynt help it. He wuzz born with uh silvir foot in hizz mahwth.”
On the other hand, I can understand why people like lissener seem to have so much animosity towards Texans. It’s the same reason that I tried so hard to convince my last girlfriend that Brad Pitt had bad breath.
“No thanks, I use toilet paper.”
You got to have a more positive attitude. Just cause she was your most recent girlfriend, don’t necessarily mean she was your last.
(Just yankin’ yer chain, spud…)
Well, then you might like this.
[QUOTE=Mockingbird]
Seconded.
You boys have got a deal, holding the place still should not be a problem.
Unclviny
That’s a great song off a great album.
Probably my favorite musical purchase in all of the last year.
Gurf Morlix plays guitar and does the production on it. He was responsible, primarily, for the sound of “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.” He hasn’t been around for Lucinda Williams last two efforts, which is very likely the reason that they suck.
Audrey, isn’t that supposed to be Baja Oklahoma?
I was born in Dallas, way back in 1940. I entered the Texas public school system in 1946 and departed it in 1961. I never attended a single class with a black person, not even in college. I remember too damn well the “colored only” and “white only” waiting rooms, rest rooms, and drinking fountains. I remember black people being forced to ride in the rear of the bus. For a lot of years I didn’t know that blacks were ever called anything but “colored” or “nigger,” with an occasional “coon” thrown in for good measure.
Basically, my heritage from Texas was one of intolerance, segregation, discrimination, narrow-mindedness, hatred, fist-fighting, and a Southern Baptist induced belief that everyone was going to go to hell except for a handful of the most rigid, dumbest, whitest, racist morons you can imagine. I left the place when I was twenty-three and wish now that I had done so about twenty years earlier.
Why am I explaining a joke? See, it’s like this: lissener is a Texan and therefore Gov Richards doesn’t talk funny in the same way that I’m from Minnesota and therefore I enjoyed Fargo because it was nice to hear people in a movie who didn’t talk funny. And anybody who thinks those accents were fakey hasn’t been to “Le Sew-er.”
Go Bearss!
And Seminole, Florida from 1946 to 1961 was a fucking utopia. :rolleyes:
“The population …of Dallas… tripled between 1950 and 1990, from 614,799 to 1,852,810. While both the black and white populations increased, the percentage of blacks in the population grew from 13 percent in 1950 to 20 percent in 1990. In 1980 the Hispanic population made up 9 percent of the population, but by 1990 it was 17 percent.”- from here: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/DD/hcd2.html
So, was Dallas the only place in the US that was intolerant, segragated, discriminatory, narrow minded, full of hate, had fist-fights, and had conservative religous beliefs at the time? Dallas was the only city with with rigid, dumb, white, racist morons? Therefore the whole state of Texas is somehow to blame for the mores of the times and the experience of your upbringing?
BS.
My Texas experience has been the complete opposite of yours.
It’s still like that today in Texas, unlike Florida where all races of mankind has lived in harmony since the begining of time. Don’t think for a second that time has anything to do with it, it has to be location, location, location.
Ya, I’ve been to Louisiana three times. First time, my purse was stolen. The next time my car was broken into. The third time I was robbed of $10.00 at gunpoint. Clearly, Louisiana is completely populated by criminals- even my old granny must be a criminal od some kind since she lives there- and noone should ever go there. :rolleyes:
Born Waco, 1948. (Quiet little town, you never heard of it, nothing ever happens there…) My experience reflects Lou’s in most regards, but I suspect the age difference is crucial, because when things started to happen, they happened comparatively fast.
My own family was unionist, and liberal for Texas. My understanding of “colored” was that it was the polite way to refer to an obvious fact. My grandmother would not permit the “n-word” to be spoken in her presence. Last real whuppin’ I ever got. But it had nothing to do with political convictions, it simply wasn’t Christian. God didn’t love them, He wouldn’t have made them, and that was that.
Therein lies some confusion. A lot of people in Texas might have been thought of as “liberal” simply because they were egalitarian in their views on race. It doesn’t necessarily follow. Politicly, they were just to the left of Khublai Khan, but they recognized the palpable injustice of racial prejudice.
It should be noted that for all the warm fuzzy visited upon JFK for progress, it was LBJ who really did the heavy lifting. (It is hard to imagine a better example of the “flawed giant” in American history…)
My grandfather drove the city bus in the colored part of town, I rode with him quite a bit. He had very cordial relations with colored people his own age, talking, joking, perfectly human. (They were valuable sources of information when new bar-b-q joints opened. We could go there, but had to sit in the kitchen…)
He always addressed them by first name, they always called him “Mr. Rip”. It wasn’t deferential any more than any other form of simple politeness is deferential. When I got to my teens, and things were happening, sometimes young black men would interact with him, and treat him with as much scorn as they could get away with, and that hurt his feelings, he wanted to be on a first name basis, but they wouldn’t accept such cordiality.
And Thelma and Lucille and Ruby would walk by and whisper “Don’t pay them any mind, Mr. Rip, they’re just young and don’t know no better…”
My point, if I still have one, is that politics changes nothing, people change politics. When the people lead, the leaders will follow. Texas didn’t change any slower than anywhere else, it just had so much farther to go. But the ratio of decent folks is no different than anywhere else, and that’s all that counts.
I take offense at this.
Texas is part of the West DAMMIT!
And we won’t take it, no matter how many times you ask us. 
The West? Shitfire, son, California is part of the “West”! Texas isn’t part of anything but Texas
OK, its part of the USA, but thats a technicality…
You mean that in November I’m not only going to have to embrace my new liberal overlords but my new international overlords as well?
Heavens to motherfuckin’ Betsy.
Oh fuck me runnin’. Please disregard my poor markmanship.