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Old 06-21-2009, 05:36 PM
 
Location: Hutto, Tx
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We've never been an intellectual state? Another rampantly wrong stereotype. There are lots of smart people here. If we were not smart, we'd be as bad in the hole as a lot of other places are right now.
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Old 06-21-2009, 06:27 PM
 
Location: Hutto, Tx
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There are too many famous Texans, native or transplant, to list here but I'll put a few recognizable ones here.

1.Elizabet Ney
2. William S. Porter (O. Henry)
3.Najeeb Halaby
4.Howard Hughes
5. Michael Dell
6. Forest Whitaker
7. Steve Martin
8.Michael DeBakey
9.Horton Foote
10.Julian Schnabel
11. Robert Rodriguez
12. Kate Capshaw
13. Chace Crawford
14. Thomas Haden Church
15. King Vidor
16. Anousheh Ansari
17. Richard Linklater
18. Dan Rather
19.Red Adair
20. "Tex" Avery
21. Walter Cronkite
22. Janis Joplin
23. Joan Crawford
24. Audi Murphy
25. Woody Harrelson
26. Carol Burnett
27. Gene Roddenberry
28. T. Boone Pickens
29. Chester William Nimitz
30. Molly Ivins
31. Robin Wright
32. Renee Zellweger
33. Barbara Jordan
34. Red Duke
35. Tom Ford
36.Isaiah Washington
37. Paul C. Chu
38. Sandra Cisneros
39. Lyndon B. Johnson
40. Henry Thomas
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Old 06-22-2009, 06:18 PM
 
Location: Where I live.
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Okay, I totally just decided to stop flirting with this living in Texas idea. You people wouldn't like me one bit. But you've never been an intellectual state. BTW FYI not all Dems are lazy!
You show by all of your posts that you yourself are far from anything I'd consider intellectual!

What arrogance!!

You have NO idea what Texas is like, and you're buying into the stereotypes BIG time. Many of us native Texans are really fed up with this, too! It usually doesn't bother me at all what outsiders think of Texas (true or not) unless they actually move to Texas.

If they come here with a good attitude, that's one thing--but quite a few of them don't, and I'd probably count you among those. Why don't you move to a state that you consider "intellectual?"

LOL!!!!

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Old 06-22-2009, 08:43 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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I'm very skeptical about relocating as I am not Republican and I know this is red-state central. .
Did you know that your Macomb County Michigan voted 89.5% for Bush in '04, and several south Texas counties voted 74% for Kerry? In '08, Starr County TX voted 86% for Obama. Brooks County TX has never, in its history, gone Republican. That is the longest continuous run in the US of any county voting Democrat every election. You might like it in Falfurrias.

Come on down here to south Texas, you'll find plenty of liberals.

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