State pride - Texas compared to other states (Howe: renting, house)

[ktulu7]

Originally Posted by doctorjef

Minor point but it is a myth that the Texas flag is the only state flag displayed at the same height as the US banner or that this was part of the treaty of annexation. With any state if there are two flag poles the US and state flags are properly displayed at the same height. If there is only a single pole then the state flag flies below the national flag and this is no different for Texas than for any other state.

Texas is the only state where I've seen some people/businesses fly the state flag on a higher pole than the USA flag. It may not be legal or standard, but it's the only place where I've seen it often.

[SVTRay]

Originally Posted by catman

SVTRay: No, I wasn't joking. I've never heard a Texan brag about the wind farms; that would be too eco-sensitive. It's always about the size of certain things (the tallest, biggest, most [over-]populated, etc.). I live in the DFW area, and it is growing much too fast for the infrastructure to keep up with it. The traffic is horrendous, and the power grid is strained during hot weather. Most of the things you mentioned get a big "so what" from me. I'm more concerned with being able to get around in my car and having A/C when it's 105 degrees, much more practical concerns.

Don't jump to the conclusion that I hate being here. I like it a great deal. It's my home. But too many other people want to be here.

Texas has it's own power grid!

Ya, we maintain an apartment in Uptown Dallas and the State energy department issued a level 1 emergency...level 2 is rolling brown outs. So it was a little crazy considering it was 105-109 during that time....85 at night.

Anyhow, what you're talking about is happening in every major city in the US...just ask any one in California about rolling brown outs. All I can say is Texas has a very stable grid compare to other areas of the country and is working to increase it's out put power. As for the wind farms, you should check them out! New technology has made turbines effencent at lower ground levels. So now their being built in cotton fields etc. Just take a trip out West of I-20 and start looking for them around Sweetwater Texas on platos....keep driving and you'll see them down right next to the interstate! Their really cool to watch both during the day and night...they have blinking red lights on top for low flying aircraft and these lights are all synchronized. A whole farm of wind turbine lights blink on and off at the same time.

[hamjeepr]

Originally Posted by ktulu7

Texas is the only state where I've seen some people/businesses fly the state flag on a higher pole than the USA flag. It may not be legal or standard, but it's the only place where I've seen it often.

I still fly the Texas flag higher than the US flag, even up here in Wisconsin! Still proud, just displaced.

[doctorjef]

Very strange statement you are making thereby, given that Texas was all along an Anglo-American project with the goal of being incorporated into the United States of America. There was some ambivalence on the part of various Politicians under the Republic, but the strategic agenda was always annexation into the USA. In light of the historical reality much Texas nationalism is uninformed and chauvinistic historical revisionism.

[catman]

SVTRay: Yes, I've seen some of the wind farms, and they are cool. But as you know, they are still having a hard time keeping up with the population boom. Texas, the United States, and the world have got to get a handle on the population increase eventually, and sooner rather than later would be much better. All this is much more important than the height of monuments, how big Texas is, and all the other jibber-jabber that Texans brag about.

[SVTRay]

Originally Posted by catman

SVTRay: Yes, I've seen some of the wind farms, and they are cool. But as you know, they are still having a hard time keeping up with the population boom. Texas, the United States, and the world have got to get a handle on the population increase eventually, and sooner rather than later would be much better. All this is much more important than the height of monuments, how big Texas is, and all the other jibber-jabber that Texans brag about.

This is a Global and Federal issue and nothing to do with State Pride. If anything, you should give credit to Texas for handling it better than other States...especially fellow border States.

Now with that said, this is a State Pride thread...


The first suspension bridge in the United States was the Waco Bridge. Built in 1870 and still in use today as a pedestrian crossing of the Brazos River.

The first word spoken from the moon on July 20, 1969 was Houston

More land is farmed in Texas than in any other state

Texas has the first domed stadium in the country

The Flagship Hotel on Seawall Boulevard in Galveston is the only hotel in North America built entirely over the water.

[stan4]

Originally Posted by ktulu7

Texas is the only state where I've seen some people/businesses fly the state flag on a higher pole than the USA flag. It may not be legal or standard, but it's the only place where I've seen it often.

I would do it, but the only flag I fly is the Longhorn flag on Saturdays we have a game.

US flags on stakes around the house on July 4.

I said this on another thread and I'll say it again here...who cares why Texans have pride? The better question is why don't all you other people have pride in your states? We just happen to love our state, our communities, our traditions, our...well, lots of things. I assume the same is true of where you live...?

[stan4]

Originally Posted by hamjeepr

I think the primary difference is that most people in other states consider themselves residents of the United States (or a "world-wide community"). Real Texans consider themselves residents of Texas which just happens to be in the United States.

That (for a lot of people) is 100% true. I was born in NY, but I grew up overseas. I lived in California. I idolized the U.S. growing up back then.

I have been all over this world and all over this country. And as things have gone on with politics, technology, etc...I find myself more distanced from my 'fellow' Americans and much closer to my fellow Texans.

100% Texan before I claim the U.S. Besides Hawaii (who doesn't want to be part of the U.S. either), there's nowhere else in this country that I would live.

[virgil tatro]

I'M from Montana, I like Texas as well, but Ill bet the majority of Texans wish they were from Montana. The Big sky country...

[SVTRay]

Originally Posted by virgil tatro

I'M from Montana, I like Texas as well, but Ill bet the majority of Texans wish they were from Montana. The Big sky country...

I wouldn't mind some of your cooler weather for sure