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10-09-2008, 07:04 PM
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My kids claim to be Texans although they weren't born here, but we moved here when they were ages 5 years and 2 years. You can't blame a child where he or she was born. I really think a lot of what a person claims to be is where he or she was raised, not born, but that's just my opinion.
 Then again, that's not always the case as I know many natives who don't really consider themselves Texans, per se. Why, I haven't clue and I'm not asking.
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10-09-2008, 07:08 PM
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Can I just say "God bless the Texans"? I know I am not from Texas but I want to experience that feeling of saying that I am and that I am proud of it. You will have to forgive me because I am extremely infatuated with Dallas.
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10-09-2008, 07:33 PM
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10-09-2008, 07:43 PM
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10-09-2008, 08:11 PM
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Ha. Look at me. I moved to Texas about 5 days ago. My wife is born and raised Texan but been away 15 years. She tells me being a Texan is a state of mind. Has nothing to do with time served.
One thing is for sure. Texans are proud. I lived in many places but I never seen what I see here. Where ever you see a United States flag hanging, you can be sure there is a Texas state flag flying below it. I never seen so many people wearing a shirt depicting some sort of Texas thing, so much more so then any other state. You see signs saying not to litter but in Texas it is always "Dont mess with Texas" or you'll pay $$ fine. Oh and high school sports rivalries? Wow? Strangers judge you on what school your kids go to. Complete strangers will wave to you. Near where Im staying now, just today I was waiting in the parking lot for my wife to pick up a few things at the store. Im watching people come out of the store and just open their car door. No one but no one locked their car doors. That is insane. Maybe too much trust in their fellow man? I love it here. I am going to have a hard time learning to say "Ya'all".
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10-09-2008, 08:14 PM
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"Im sure its common for someone young or maybe from the mid-west...
But probably next to never for someone from Chicago or NY. I havent lived in Texas for a while.Do the transplants outnumber natives.. In many places?" What are you talking about? Midwestern places like Chicago are one of the prime places people are moving to Texas from because of their failing rust-belt economy. I have met hundreds of people from Chicago and New York here. Better economy/high paying jobs/lower cost of living/ no state income tax----> people moving here. California is probably the biggest place they come from though, at least to Houston and Austin.
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10-09-2008, 08:15 PM
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10-09-2008, 08:16 PM
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Nice, I do hope you enjoy your move to Texas and make the best of it. I know my day will come soon. There is not a day that goes that i do not think about living in Texas. My mother tells me that a new another day gone and another day closer to my move.
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10-09-2008, 10:33 PM
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I may not be "Texan by the grace of God" (I sure wish I was though
), but I will soon be "Texan by the grace of U-haul" 
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10-10-2008, 06:33 AM
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