Texas pride (Houston, Austin, Fort Worth: living in, rated, rain)

[ozarksboy]

I'm a Missourian married to a strong Texas woman. We live in the Missouri Ozarks and listen to Fort Worth's KFWR via streaming audio. KFWR played these songs today. I wish Missourians had this attitude of state pride.


Welcome to Texas

Here's another good'n:


*********, We're From Texas

I admire the attitude of true Texans, who diminish in number each year. I fret about the future of your state, given the demographic changes.

Ozarksboy
Located in south central Missouri, not far from where Moses Austin, the first man to obtain permission to bring Anglo-American settlers into Spanish Texas, operated lead mines and is buried.

[Canine*Castle]

The Texans I know would be embarrassed about these songs and the lovely "*********" attitude. Ugh! Terrible!!

[Cathy4017]

As a native Texan, I enjoyed the first, and can do without the second.

IMHO, the second one is a piece of trash that does not reflect what most true native Texans are, so if you consider that one to be typical of the general attitudes...um....well, I don't have anything else to say.

[orbius]

Pride cometh before the fall isnt that written somewhere?

[Canine*Castle]

Originally Posted by orbius

Pride cometh before the fall isnt that written somewhere?

I wanted to say that, but I refrained from doing so. Pride is one of the seven deadly sins. It's in Proverbs ... 16:18.

[Westerner92]

^^^I think there's a difference between being proud of where you come from and thinking you're superior because of it, the latter of which is what the Bible warns against.

[DanielWayne]

There is definitely a contingent on the Houston forum from a certain unnamed Western state that think they are superior because of where they are from.

[Melissa78703]

Originally Posted by DanielWayne

There is definitely a contingent on the Houston forum from a certain unnamed Western state that think they are superior because of where they are from.

Yes, and in the Austin forums as well. I would add in yet another unnamed Western state that has the same attitude as well ... seems to be a hazard of living in certain unnamed West Coast states.

[Canine*Castle]

Originally Posted by Westerner92

^^^I think there's a difference between being proud of where you come from and thinking you're superior because of it, the latter of which is what the Bible warns against.

I don't know. You might want to look up the word in the dictionary. That pretty well sums it up with or without Proverbs. Check out the synonyms, idioms, and antonym. I used the word once to a dear and terribly intelligent Texan regarding the pride he must feel for his children. He taught me the correct meaning of pride and changed that word to admire. I liked it!!

[buzzpost]

Being proud is one thing, but being downright arrogant is another. That second song, along with it's imagery, is arrogant as hell.