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Old 10-15-2010, 05:15 PM
 
Location: USA
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I've noticed that a good portion of you have Texas, or Texan, or TX in your screen name? What's up with that? Why not just put Texas in your location and leave it at that? Seems like you folks are a little too proud to be from Texas.
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Old 10-15-2010, 05:35 PM
 
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I've noticed that a good portion of you have Texas, or Texan, or TX in your screen name? What's up with that? Why not just put Texas in your location and leave it at that? Seems like you folks are a little too proud to be from Texas.
There is no way to describe how much Texas is a part of who you are if you were born and raised here, and especially if you go several generations back. Pride, yes there is that, but it's more than that. I've lived in other places, but I'll always be a Texan.
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Old 10-15-2010, 05:36 PM
 
Location: Where I live.
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I've noticed that a good portion of you have Texas, or Texan, or TX in your screen name? What's up with that? Why not just put Texas in your location and leave it at that? Seems like you folks are a little too proud to be from Texas.
So what?

Why do you care what someone else uses for their screen name? It's no skin off of your nose.
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Old 10-15-2010, 05:41 PM
 
Location: Denver
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Who are you to determine what's too proud?
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Old 10-15-2010, 05:51 PM
 
Location: USA
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There is no way to describe how much Texas is a part of who you are if you were born and raised here, and especially if you go several generations back. Pride, yes there is that, but it's more than that. I've lived in other places, but I'll always be a Texan.
That makes sense. I guess I don't really understand because I've only been a Minnesotan & a Californian, and to be honest, I'm kind of embarassed of both.

I've been to many great cities & towns in Texas so I'm not trying to diss you guys, just curious & a little bored.
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Old 10-15-2010, 05:52 PM
 
Location: USA
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Who are you to determine what's too proud?
Perkins Well. Haven't you heard? I'm the authority of determining who is too proud, and who isn't. (joking)

Seriously though, I was just curious about all of the TX screen names on C-D. There's a ton!
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Old 10-15-2010, 06:17 PM
 
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I've noticed that a good portion of you have Texas, or Texan, or TX in your screen name? What's up with that? Why not just put Texas in your location and leave it at that? Seems like you folks are a little too proud to be from Texas.
Psssst? Don't tell anyone, ok? But I am going to share a secret with you that I really don't want to get out. Here it is:

I THINK it might be that we ARE proud to be from Texas...?

Oh lord have mercy...

"cringe, gasp, kicks legs in death throes like the bug in the old Black Flag commercials....ARRRRGH, strangles self.....burns down my shed....and finally expires...with the dying words being....."please let me apologize for being proud of my home state..."

Seriously...are you for real? Where are you from and what business is it of yours anyway? Why in the world do you spend a Friday night starting a thread like this?

A "little too proud" to be from Texas? Well, maybe. But maybe too that ain't for you to decide nor lecture on, podner. We Texans will make that self-introspective decision ourselves and in our own way and come to proper conclusions as to how to deal with our neurosis.

I can think of nothing more ludicurous than someone not from Texas presuming to give us a condecending lesson on the subject of incorporating the justifiable pride in our state into our sceen names. Are you perhaps a little envious...?
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Old 10-15-2010, 06:33 PM
 
Location: Central Texas
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There is no way to describe how much Texas is a part of who you are if you were born and raised here, and especially if you go several generations back. Pride, yes there is that, but it's more than that. I've lived in other places, but I'll always be a Texan.
This pretty much sums it up. It's a very strong sense of place and that place is a part of our bones.

It's sort of like when people ask us why we're so proud of Texas and think it's odd, and we're thinking that it's odd that they aren't just as proud of where they are from.
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Old 10-15-2010, 06:50 PM
 
Location: Texas State Fair
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It is a sense of place. And a gratitude for it.
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Old 10-15-2010, 07:02 PM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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I haven't noticed it myself. Mostly because I didn't care.
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