Why do Texans hate each others cities? (Houston, Dallas: dorm, university)

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by LAnative10

I probably should have worded this differently. What I was trying to say is that the people I meet dont have much to say negative or positive about areas too far from here. Ive never really heard anything bad about Houston from people here (outside of the weather, but everyone seems to think its a good city). I dated a girl from Houston way back when and Ive spent much time in Houston for work and in my time there, when we talked about other cities they didnt have much bad or good to say about Dallas.

What Im driving at here, is why is it so vocal online, but not in person?

ok, that makes more sense. I do think people in Texas are very much involved in where they live more than what is happening in the world outside of theirs. This may be good cause as you mentioned, they don't really hate the other cities.

Nita

[Lakewooder]

Speaking of Baylor, SMU, etc..do any of you remember the intense rivalry in the old Southwest Conference?

It's sort of the same thing..

[txstate]

Oh yeah the SWC rivalries are classic, Baylor vs anybody Waco sits in the heart of the state I use to love a SWC game back in the day.

Anyway I think its a what your city has compared to what my city has. People love to compare apples to oranges in this case Dallas to Houston Austin to SA, Lubboock to Waco oh my.

[txstate]

Waco and Killeen have always been frienemies. That goes back to district 13-5A football, basketball, and track. Plus people mostly outsiders( Ft Hood) look down on Waco and the people thats why i dont care for Killeen its Waco, Austin for me ( keep it on 35) And yes Waco is dominated by the Dallas market from channel 8 to k104.5 fm, most of the people who live up there are from Waco

Originally Posted by Spade

That's a great and interesting point. It comes down to pull.

Let's look at from a Central Texas Standpoint which is the Waco/Temple/Killeen area. Market wise, the three cities are connected on TV. Because Waco has historically been the bigger city out of the three and in the region and Waco has many ties to Dallas, the TV stations we got in Killeen was the Dallas stations. We use to have WFAA (and they probably still have it) and CBS11.

But around 1996, as Killeen continued to grow and started to distance itself from Waco, it started to bond a little bit more with the Austin area. Killeen and Temple's other CBS station (because we still had the local CBS station based out of Waco) was replaced with Austin's CBS station and we also received Austin's Fox station. We got Austin's radio stations while Waco only received Dallas stations.

As a result, a growing number of San Antonio fans are in Killeen as well as adopting Texas as it's college team alongside Texas A&M. Baylor is not as popular in Killeen and most likely never was because most people in Killeen are not from Texas.

But from other states, you have rivalries. In the DC area you have DC vs Baltimore. They don't really much care for each other lol.

[EmilyD1970]

I lived in Texas from the age of 3 to age 38, and I don't ever recall knowing about these feuds between the cities.
The thing I did see what how us Texans act like we are better than every other state, even if they haven't visited anywhere else.
I have lived in beautiful California for the past year, and have nothing but great experiences. When friends and family found out that I was moving to California, all I heard was "Ewww, people there are so rude!" "Eathquakes, wildfires, gangs!"
Haha, then I would ask, "Oh, so you've been to California?"
They would respond, "Oh no, never been."
But yet they knew SO much!


In my experience, its all how you act towards other people. If you go in with a negative attitude, then that's how you're going to be treated back.

[LAnative10]

Originally Posted by EmilyD1970

I lived in Texas from the age of 3 to age 38, and I don't ever recall knowing about these feuds between the cities.
The thing I did see what how us Texans act like we are better than every other state, even if they haven't visited anywhere else.
I have lived in beautiful California for the past year, and have nothing but great experiences. When friends and family found out that I was moving to California, all I heard was "Ewww, people there are so rude!" "Eathquakes, wildfires, gangs!"
Haha, then I would ask, "Oh, so you've been to California?"
They would respond, "Oh no, never been."
But yet they knew SO much!


In my experience, its all how you act towards other people. If you go in with a negative attitude, then that's how you're going to be treated back.

THANK YOU!

Ive been dealing with that on here as well. There another thread in the Dallas forum where a poster from Houston has been saying things about LA and when I asked him if he/she had ever been there, the answer of course was no.

[Scarface713]

Originally Posted by jluke65780

The whole accent thing is mostly with Blacks. I'll try to find videos to show you an example

The accent thing is true. I'm at Prairie View right now, and you can tell who is from Houston and who is from Dallas by the way they talk. The ones from Houston are more laid back/calm and the ones from Dallas are more in your face/loud.

[jluke65780]

Originally Posted by Angel713

The accent thing is true. I'm at Prairie View right now, and you can tell who is from Houston and who is from Dallas by the way they talk. The ones from Houston are more laid back/calm and the ones from Dallas are more in your face/loud.

You must've met my home girl lmao

[LAnative10]

Originally Posted by jluke65780

You must've met my home girl lmao

Im still curious to know what the difference is by accent. You mentioned that its a black thing. The white people Ive met from both cities sound the same to me. Maybe Houstonians sound more cajun and Dallasites sound more midwestern, but thats a shot in the dark.

[Metro Matt]

Originally Posted by LAnative10

Im still curious to know what the difference is by accent. You mentioned that its a black thing. The white people Ive met from both cities sound the same to me. Maybe Houstonians sound more cajun and Dallasites sound more midwestern, but thats a shot in the dark.

Both sound Texan or where ever else they're from to me. However, here in Eastern Texas there is a discernable draw that sounds more like someone from Alabama or Georgia than Texas.