Texas stereotypes

[gtt99]

Why is reading the Bible and/or carrying a gun considered horrible?

[7ry1an3]

Originally Posted by gtt99

Why is reading the Bible and/or carrying a gun considered horrible?

Because so many ppl these days look up to soy boys like beto. I would like to see him try to start a lawn mower

[eastriver]

Originally Posted by KoNgFooCj

Are these stereotypes still prevalent in 2019? If Texas becomes a blue state will these horrible stereotypes disappear?

Texas was a blue state for a hundred years before Bill Clements took office in 1979.

[TexasHorseLady]

Originally Posted by SunnyTXsmile

That's what most people I know think about TX, too (admittedly, including myself), until I kept an open mind (as I always try to do) and visited. I was happily surprised that I was wrong.

I think some of the very rural parts of TX are that way, but certainly not the entire state. Then again, most of the really rural parts of most states I've been to have been that way, so it's not strictly a rural TX thing.

As for people overseas, in my experience, they think Americans are like what they see on TV (aka Hollywood - rich, shallow, materialistic, easy, etc., etc. - basically, the same stereotype non-CA people have of CA).

It's a shame more people don't try to keep an open mind and visit a place before forming a solid opinion about it.

And there's another stereotype. People drive through the rural small towns (or not even that) and think they know what it's like. Not realizing that if they hung around long enough to get to know people, they'd find out that one of the guys that runs the BBQ stand has to be gone a lot because he's flying out of state for depositions, being an attorney licensed in multiple states, or the guy that owns the feed store is a geologist and engineer who assisted when the location for the SuperCollider was being determined, and the guy that owns the big cattle handling operation that's third generation family owned practically owns half the county, or that it takes an advanced degree from A&M (or the equivalent in decades, if not generations, of experience) to farm these days. And the price of farm equipment puts fancy cars to shame.



Reminds me of someone else I knew as a young girl. He was the typical grandfatherly old farmer, I never saw him in anything but overalls. He had a bass lake on his farm and since he and Daddy were friends (Daddy was a local minister), we got to go out and go out on the lake in his Jon boat and fish. It was several years later that I found out who Clint Murchison, Sr., was when he wasn't on his farm. That entire town was full of oil money (and education) but they didn't flash it, didn't need to.

[gtt99]

One thing that’s not a stereotype is that we as Texans don’t give a damn about what others think.

[As Above So Below...]

Originally Posted by eastriver

Texas was a blue state for a hundred years before Bill Clements took office in 1979.

Blue yes. Liberal no. Only exception was Ann Richards.

[Treasurevalley92]

Originally Posted by gtt99

One thing that’s not a stereotype is that we as Texans don’t give a damn about what others think.

I havnt found that to be true at all.

In fact one way or the other Texans seem to care a whole lot what other people think, they just preface it with saying they don't.

[RJ312]

Originally Posted by Treasurevalley92

I havnt found that to be true at all.

In fact one way or the other Texans seem to care a whole lot what other people think, they just preface it with saying they don't.

Think about Dallas. Dallas is a very image conscious city. There's an element of pretentious and displaying status to others.

[KathrynAragon]

Originally Posted by Treasurevalley92

I havnt found that to be true at all.

In fact one way or the other Texans seem to care a whole lot what other people think, they just preface it with saying they don't.

There's a whole lot of Texas outside the big cities, which are full of transplants from other states anyway.

[Treasurevalley92]

Originally Posted by KathrynAragon

There's a whole lot of Texas outside the big cities, which are full of transplants from other states anyway.

Well yes, often times it is the people who live outside the cities that care the most. Texas pride is even a bigger deal outside the major metros.