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12-13-2008, 03:27 PM
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Get rid of that stinkin thinkin!
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Location: Fort Worth/Dallas
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These days Texas is so diverse that it's hard to pin a stereotype on Texas, at least in the larger cities.
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12-13-2008, 03:59 PM
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Real Estate Agent
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Location: Central Texas
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Originally Posted by Synopsis
These days Texas is so diverse that it's hard to pin a stereotype on Texas, at least in the larger cities.
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Texas has always been diverse (six flags, anyone?) - that's one of the very neat things about it. That hasn't stopped folks in past from trying to pin stereotypes on us! |
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12-13-2008, 04:55 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Tyler County Texas
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Don't worry about the the "Damn Yankee" part. Once you've been in Texas for 10 years, you'll lose the "Damn" part and just be "Yankee".  |
Good point although I always heard it said that a damn Yankee was one that came and stayed!  |
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12-13-2008, 06:24 PM
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If you don't like dogs, be on your way.
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Location: U.S.A.
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When I was a kid, a boy from Dallas moved to California and went to school with me. I know, I'm a Yankee to some and I stayed in Texas. Sorry!! 
Anyway, I thought he was the cutest thing with his southern accent. I think we were in the 6th grade. I lost track of him after that because we ended up going to different junior high schools. He and his family probably ended up back in Texas.
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12-13-2008, 07:02 PM
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Texan, Southerner, USA
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Good point although I always heard it said that a damn Yankee was one that came and stayed! |
That's what I always heard too, Bob!
My own deliniation though, involves two types. Some northerners/west coasters come to Texas/South and can do nothing but find eternal fault and ever complain and whine...and then wonder why they are not the recipients of "Southern Hospitality"...giving them further cause to complain. 
They are the Damnyankees.
Others though, come down here and adapt to our ways and customs and truly try to fit in and be good neighbors! (we have a lot of this wonderful group on the Texas forum). This bunch can often be the fiercest of Texas/Southern partisans...and with the fervor of the proverbial "new convert" will be the first to tell the above type to take I-35 North if they don't like it.
They are just the plain ol' yankees. Always referred to as such in an affectionate and good-natured kidding way. Wouldn't trade 'em for anything. And if I had of? I wouldn't have had my two half-yankee kids as a result!
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Anyway, I thought he was the cutest thing with his southern accent. I think we were in the 6th grade. I lost track of him after that because we ended up going to different junior high schools. He and his family probably ended up back in Texas.
TOM HOLLAND, are you out there?
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LOL I bet he is pining over you as we speak, CC! Hey, Texas/Southern boy I am, the paradox is that most of my serious relationships have been with northern ladies. He might be of the same genre, ya know! 
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12-13-2008, 07:59 PM
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If you don't like dogs, be on your way.
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Originally Posted by TexasReb
LOL I bet he is pining over you as we speak, CC! Hey, Texas/Southern boy I am, the paradox is that most of my serious relationships have been with northern ladies. He might be of the same genre, ya know! |
He may be. |
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12-15-2008, 10:59 AM
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Counting my blessings
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
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Originally Posted by Tilar
Don't worry about the the "Damn Yankee" part. Once you've been in Texas for 10 years, you'll lose the "Damn" part and just be "Yankee". |
Not as far as my ex-boyfriend is concerned - he's still a damn yankee to me! |
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12-15-2008, 02:57 PM
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My father who was from the northeast always said the real difference is that a Yankee wants you to know he is smarter than you but a Texan wants you to think your smarter than him.
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12-16-2008, 12:58 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Sunnyvale, California
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Originally Posted by texdav
My father who was from the northeast always said the real difference is that a Yankee wants you to know he is smarter than you but a Texan wants you to think your smarter than him.
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so a Texan would discretely get the last laugh with an outsider without the person even knowing it? but to the outsider's impression, everyone he or she sees would be all kind and hospitable? this true? |
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12-16-2008, 10:14 AM
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Spread love instead of trying to be the enemy
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Houston and Dallas
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