How many people become "TEXANS" (Arlington, Grand Prairie: vacation, home)

[autotech4dallas]

Originally Posted by calid00d

You're not one of the typical social conservative types from Oklahoma are you? Dallas proper is very liberal and might turn you off, so check your republicanism at the door!

Naw, I'm just an a guy with a dream to relocate to Dallas after graduating from school as an automotive technician. Just a guy who grew up in Oklahoma. I don't really consider myself a typical social conservative. I've been to Dallas since 2003 and I know what it's like there. I can honestly say that it hasn't turned me off at all.

[blueskies49]

Originally Posted by love roses

Not really a secret here since I've said it on here before: But, I was the only person in my immediate family NOT born in Texas, but they still kept me I think if someone sticks around, say about 10 yrs. then they are pretty much set here and can safely be called Texans.

Depends if they have the "Texas state-of-mind" or not. I know someone from Indiana who has lived here for 20 years and he is NOT Texan, only a resident of Texas. He likes Texas for the most part but he'll be the first to tell you that he doesn't fit into that "state-of-mind" category.

Originally Posted by Canine*Castle

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.

This statement is true sometimes depending on the person. In my case, I was born here but lived most of my childhood in the military overseas in different countries. I've always envied people born and raised in one place. I didn't like all the moving around we had to do. That's why I latch onto the place of my birth more than any other criteria, for me personally anyway.

Originally Posted by TexasGirl@Heart

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"

Cute!

[stan4]

Been here 19 of my 32 years and wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

[latetotheparty]

lived in houston and south texas the first 26 years of my life..... been here in st. louis for 22 years now and STILL consider myself a texan..... will be coming home permanently by 2011......

[averagejoe76]

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.[/quote]

My point was that someone who comes to Texas young or from..
Certains parts of the Country are more likely to become Texans.
Someone from NY or Chicago is not as likely to as someone from..
Kansas,Missouri,Arizona,etc

[autotech4dallas]

Originally Posted by stan4

Been here 19 of my 32 years and wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

Noice, and I love on your "status" it reads TX/OU.

[Texan in Virginia]

Originally Posted by TexasGirl@Heart

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"

Love it!

Lori

[autotech4dallas]

Originally Posted by TexasGirl@Heart

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"

I had to quote your quote again because it truly is the greatest!

[crbcrbrgv]

To whoever said Chicagoans don't become Texans....I was born and raised in Chicago and the Chicago suburbs. I attended college in Michigan and fell for a beautiful Mexican-American lady from the Rio Grande Valley. We moved to the Valley many years ago and have since moved to Houston. In the meantime I have: Stood up in 7 quincineras, coached a pee-wee football team, cried when McAllen Memorial lost in the playoffs to San Antonio MacArthur, roped a calf, started saying ya'll about seven years ago on a regular basis, learned how to make brisket and sausage on the grill the RIGHT way, I now support "The Texas Pledge" in the classroom despite the fact I was about the most "You can't EVER EVER SAY GOD IN SCHOOL person before that, and started listening to country when before I moved here, I would have prefered you strapped me down and gave me a full body massage with a rusty cheese grater befor listening to "that garbage". These are just a few examples. My brother has lived here much longer and I can't even tell he was born and raised in Chicago anymore.

[blueskies49]

crbcrbrgv - you're another one who has the "Texan state-of-mind"!