A "true" Texan :) (buying, land, office)

[Canine*Castle]

Originally Posted by **NoodLes**

IMO a true Texan is one who was raised in TX and spent at least the first 20 years growing up there. aka ME. Texas is the best state EVER!!! For all natives still there, don't take it for granted, it's a great state with some of the greatest people on Earth. FLORIDA SUCKSSS!!!!!

I have a friend who fits that criteria except he was born here too. He doesn't claim to be a Texan or a southerner for that matter. He just isn't into southern culture, if you will. I'm not either, so he and I get along really well. I like it and he's the best native I know!!

He lived in Dallas (Highland Park) and worked there for many years. He still comments, "I may have lived and work in the Dallas area, but I'm not of Dallas." Knowing him, I understand what he means.

[justatexan]

Originally Posted by stan4

Yeah. You either get it or you don't. I feel a kinship with those who get it. I lived abroad first and then 4 harrowing years in California. Getting to Texas was like getting to somewhere my soul understood. Kinda like when I go to Hawaii...something just connects.

If you don't get it, move along.

I think that sums up my feelings as well. It's funny, when I went to boarding school for two years during high school the teachers would always comment on how students from Texas had the most state pride of any other students from other states. Borderline obsession they would say.

Some youtube blogger who hates Texas (theamazingatheist I think is his name) made a point that if you insult the home state of almost any other person other than a Texan they just shrug it off but us Texans take it personally and get overly defensive.

Must be programmed in our brains from childhood or something, can't really explain it

[stan4]

Originally Posted by justatexan

I think that sums up my feelings as well. It's funny, when I went to boarding school for two years during high school the teachers would always comment on how students from Texas had the most state pride of any other students from other states. Borderline obsession they would say.

Some youtube blogger who hates Texas (theamazingatheist I think is his name) made a point that if you insult the home state of almost any other person other than a Texan they just shrug it off but us Texans take it personally and get overly defensive.

Must be programmed in our brains from childhood or something, can't really explain it

I wouldn't shrug off an insult to my mother, my father, my brother, my friends, my dog, or my state. It's all part of the same thing.

[BigD_JT_14221]

Originally Posted by Canine*Castle

I have a friend who fits that criteria except he was born here too. He doesn't claim to be a Texan or a southerner for that matter. He just isn't into southern culture, if you will. I'm not either, so he and I get along really well. I like it and he's the best native I know!!

He lived in Dallas (Highland Park) and worked there for many years. He still comments, "I may have lived and work in the Dallas area, but I'm not of Dallas." Knowing him, I understand what he means.

I kinda share your feelings on this. I very much appreciate the job and the lifestyle I have here but I'm not now, and likely never will be, what most would consider a "true texan". I've been here approx 1/3 of my life now and I think that realization has sunk in that I will always be an "outsider" to folks here. Maybe it's my total lack of southern accent. Maybe it's my political leanings. Maybe it's my personality. Who knows. Eventually I'll probably be gone to the NE and some other yankee can take my place...

[stan4]

Originally Posted by BigD_JT_14221

I kinda share your feelings on this. I very much appreciate the job and the lifestyle I have here but I'm not now, and likely never will be, what most would consider a "true texan". I've been here approx 1/3 of my life now and I think that realization has sunk in that I will always be an "outsider" to folks here. Maybe it's my total lack of southern accent. Maybe it's my political leanings. Maybe it's my personality. Who knows. Eventually I'll probably be gone to the NE and some other yankee can take my place...

I don't know if it's any one characteristic more than it's a state of mind. My parents are from India, I grew up in Indonesia, I lived in Cali for 4 years, and we are all Texans through and through. And it didn't take all 21 years of our living here to become that.

[Sandstorm214]

Originally Posted by BigD_JT_14221

I've been here approx 1/3 of my life now and I think that realization has sunk in that I will always be an "outsider" to folks here. Maybe it's my total lack of southern accent. Maybe it's my political leanings. Maybe it's my personality. Who knows. Eventually I'll probably be gone to the NE and some other yankee can take my place...

Maybe you're just around the wrong people. I've made lots of friends since I've lived in Dallas who aren't from this state, don't have a Texas accent, and have political views across the spectrum, but I don't think any of them feel like outsiders. One of my best friends is a big, loud New Jersey native with a heavy NJ accent--he's the life of the party and everyone loves the guy. I've never even thought of him as an "outsider." I recall someone posting the other day that over half of the people in the Metroplex weren't even born in this state--that makes natives like me the minority here. Like I said earlier, I don't think most of us care where you're from originally--we just like good, genuine people who are fun to be around.

Of course the people who are in-your-face with "Texas rules, everybody else sucks" attitude annoy the spit out of me, so I can't say I really have any friends like that. Here's hoping you can find a diverse group of friends like mine who don't think of others as "outsiders" and just appreciate their friends for who they are.

[Lakewooder]

I know someone from my neighborhood who graduated from my high school in 1943 and his father was a Dallas native - no accent at all. I think the accents run in the families who moved here from East Texas going back 60-90 years ago.

[Canine*Castle]

Originally Posted by BigD_JT_14221

I kinda share your feelings on this. I very much appreciate the job and the lifestyle I have here but I'm not now, and likely never will be, what most would consider a "true texan". I've been here approx 1/3 of my life now and I think that realization has sunk in that I will always be an "outsider" to folks here. Maybe it's my total lack of southern accent. Maybe it's my political leanings. Maybe it's my personality. Who knows. Eventually I'll probably be gone to the NE and some other yankee can take my place...

Well, don't worry about it. Being a "true" or "real" person is all that matters even if one lives in Timbuktu.

[Cupcake77]

My former neighbour told me people can call her anything they want but don't call her a Texan. She was born and raised in Flowermound.

She wanted to leave Texas so bad, but didn't have the money being a single mother of 2. She definatly was not into the Texas thing. I actually never met anyone there that was into being a Texan... thank goodness. Only on this board I see it.

The attitude we see here is not representive of what I saw in people when I lived there. If they do have this attitude, they best stay in Texas, because they are not received well in other states.

[BigDGeek]

Originally Posted by Cupcake77

My former neighbour told me people can call her anything they want but don't call her a Texan. She was born and raised in Flowermound.

She wanted to leave Texas so bad, but didn't have the money being a single mother of 2. She definatly was not into the Texas thing. I actually never met anyone there that was into being a Texan... thank goodness. Only on this board I see it.

The attitude we see here is not representive of what I saw in people when I lived there. If they do have this attitude, they best stay in Texas, because they are not received well in other states.

You made your point with your first post...you hate Texas...we get it.