Texas is the new California? (capita, capital, better)

[BacktoBlue]

Originally Posted by Rakin

We appreciate that, those states have programs for people with special needs.

Your ignorance and hostility of this state really shines through.

You guys need to find something more important to whine about, get a job and clean up your own back yard.

Are you trying to imply that I am on Welfare? I like those states for their beauty and other things. I do not like texas for many reasons and one is because of people like you. Judgemental and rude.

Get a job? I am a full time university student working my a*s off to get a degree MOD CUT.

[Fontucky]

Originally Posted by Rakin

You guys need to find something more important to whine about

Naw, we get off on the fact that we don't even have to go to any of the Texas fora to troll you. Moths to a flame...

[EclecticEars]

As a native Southerner, I love both California AND Texas. Is there something wrong with me? Easily my favorite states in the U.S., although I would have to pick California, particularly south of the Bay Area, as my top choice.

I love the natural beauty, fast pace, university options of California more. However, I admire and respect the Texas political system and tax and regulatory system more (and am very skeptical about AB 32 in California).

Both states have friendly, outgoing people generally.

California has profoundly conservative regions. Think: the High Sierra region, northern inland California (north of Sacramento), the Central Valley (including Fresno and Bakersfield), Orange County, San Diego, and the Inland Empire (although that is tilting left). Southern California has produced Deukmejian, Pete Wilson and, of course, Reagan...although admittedly none of them are/were California natives.

Texas has cities more liberal than all but the most liberal of CA's cities: I would argue that Dallas and Houston are among the most liberal cities electorally in the entire country. Dallas County just reelected an openly lesbian Hispanic sheriff; Houston elected its first openly lesbian mayor and is the largest city in the country to have ever done so. Austin, while no Berkeley or Santa Fe, went for Gore in 2000 during a time when the only other counties that went blue in that state were counties with high Hispanic populations near the Mexican border. Heck, a homeless transvestite even ran for mayor there and, if I'm not mistaken, got a decent number of votes.

The UC System campuses and Caltech as well as UT-Austin and Texas A&M (although eleven CA universities listed and two TX universities listed) are among the most respected public research universities in the world, although admittedly the CA universities are more prestigious.

California has large cities very different from one another: San Diego, L.A., San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Long Beach, Sacramento, and Fresno. Texas, likewise: Dallas and Fort Worth (oh, how different they are!) as well as Austin, San Antonio and Houston.

Lastly, the two states are the most geographically and culturally diverse states with the most robust economies in the United States. California has nearly 40,000,000 and Texas nearly 30,000,000 residents; neither are going away anytime soon.

If you're from either California OR Texas, it's okay. Stop the p*ssing match.

[Rakin]

Originally Posted by Footballfreak

Get a job? I am a full time university student working my a*s off to get a degree jerk.

What's going to be really funny is when you graduate and become a man, you will be offered the job of your dreams in Podunk Texas. That job used to be located in CA but went to a better state.

Or the great job you get in CA decides to relocate to this great state and you're waiting tables with a PHD.

Be careful what you rant about, it might come back to bite you. Fate works that way.

[BacktoBlue]

Like moths to a flame...

[.highnlite]

What's going to be really funny is when you graduate and become a man, you will be offered the job of your dreams in Podunk Texas. That job used to be located in CA but went to a better state.

Why yes, a Texas, a much better state. Flat, boring, 85,000 acres of wilderness in the entire state, divided amongst 6 puny areas. Heck, Los Angeles County, not one of California's most pristine landscapes, has more designated wilderness than the entire state of Texas.

But, most people don't care about that, as long as there is a McDonald's near by. Texas used be cattle company, but today it is inhabited mostly by sheeple.

[BacktoBlue]

Originally Posted by Rakin

What's going to be really funny is when you graduate and become a man, you will be offered the job of your dreams in Podunk Texas. That job used to be located in CA but went to a better state.

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LOL Texas is not better, it sucks and is boring as hell. San Diego County alone has more species of plants then the whole state of Texas. Texas is nothing but a wannabe California. You can't even ski in Texas!

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[.highnlite]

You can't even ski in Texas!

Well, you could if Bull**** were white

[Lovehound]

Originally Posted by Fontucky

Naw, we get off on the fact that we don't even have to go to any of the Texas fora to troll you. Moths to a flame...

Okay, this exceeded my laugh meter calibration!

[ZhugeLiang]

ITT, we treat people from Texas and the southern states with contempt to make ourselves feel better.