Calling Texas Disers

[momto3disneyfans]

Howdy! I'm from Texas, too, just north of Dallas.

 

[mickeymo]

Houstonian too - Clear Lake to be exact...moved here from Chicago in 1995 and are firmly rooted (except for a 1 1/2 yr temporary assignment to Alberta, Canada) and it better be a REALLY good career move to move me anywhere else...

My snowshovel makes a really good dustpan in the garage...

 

[m&m's mom]

Flower Mound here - suburb north of Dallas. There are a lot of us!

 

[Planogirl]

I'm a displaced born-again Texan and lover of all things San Antonio...the food, the Riverwalk, and Manu Ginobli...

I have to ask... What is Manu Ginobli?

I want to add that I love the German towns around San Antonio too. I can see why so many people retire in those areas.

Anyone here from East Texas? I wouldn't want to live there personally but the town of Jefferson is really cool.

 

[gradtchr]

Dallas Area here as well.

 

[sm4987]

Hello all! I am in Mansfield texas which is between Dallas and FW!

 

[kc73]

5th generation Texas, here. Born in Freeport, lived in Angleton several years, then to east texas near Athens, then back to n.w. Houston..then to Mesquite, then to Canton where we have lived the last several years. I LOVE Texas!!!!! Although, I'm partial to east texas. We have hills & trees & it snows here in the winter. It's slower than Houston/Dallas & that's great, too. Different stokes, I guess.

I got this today, thought it would be a good place to share:


For all you Texans and wannabe Texans


Now stand UP, and listen.

When you're from Texas, people that you meet ask you questions like, Do you have any cows?" "Do you have horses?" "Bet you got a bunch of guns, eh?"

They all want to know if you've been to South fork. They watched Dallas.


Have you ever looked at a map of the world? Look at Texas with me just for a second. That picture, with the Panhandle and the Gulf Coast, and the Red River and the Rio Grande is as much a part of you as anything ever will be.. As soon as anyone anywhere in the world looks at it they know what it is. It's Texas. Pick any kid off the street in Japan and draw him a picture of Texas in the dirt and he'll know what it is. What happens if I show you a picture of any other state? You might get it maybe after a second or two, but who else would? And even if you do, does it ever stir any feelings in you?

In every man, woman and child on this planet, there is a person who wishes just once he could be a real live Texan and get up on a horse or ride off in a pickup. There is some little bit of Texas in everyone.

Did you ever hear anyone in a bar go, "Wow...so you're from Iowa? Cool, tell me about it?" Do you know why? Because there's no place like Texas.

Texas is the Alamo. Texas is 183 men standing in a church, facing thousands of Mexican nationals, fighting for freedom, who had the chance to walk out and save themselves, but stayed instead to fight and die for the cause of freedom. We send our kids to schools named William B. Travis and James Bowie and Crockett and do you know why? Because those men saw a line in the sand and they decided to cross it and be heroes. John Wayne paid to do the movie himself. That is the Spirit of Texas.

Texas is Sam Houston capturing Santa Anna at San Jacinto.

Texas is "Juneteenth" and Texas Independence Day.

Texas is huge forests of Piney Woods like the Davy Crockett National Forest.

Texas is breathtaking mountains in the Big Bend.

Texas is the unparalleled beauty of bluebonnet fields in the Texas Hill Country.

Texas is the beautiful, warm beaches of the Gulf Coast of South Texas.

Texas is the shiny skyscrapers in Houston and Dallas.

Texas is world record bass from places like Lake Fork.

Texas is Mexican food like nowhere else, not even Mexico.

Texas is the Fort Worth Stockyards, Bass Hall, the Ballpark in Arlington and the Astrodome.

Texas is larger-than-life legends like Michael DeBakey, Denton Cooley, Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, Janis Joplin, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Landry, Darrell Royal, ZZ Top, Eric Dickerson, Earl Campbell, Nolan Ryan,
Sam Rayburn, George H. W.Bush, Lyndon B.Johnson, and George W. Bush.

Texas is great companies like Dell Computer, Texas Instruments and Compaq. And LOCKHEED MARTIN AEROSPACE,! Home of the F-16 Jet Fighter and the JSF Fighter.

Texas is NASA.

Texas is huge herds of cattle and miles of crops.

Texas is skies blackened with doves, and fields full of deer.

Texas is a place where towns and cities shut down to watch the local High School Football game on Friday nights and for the Cowboys on Monday Night
Football, and for the Night In Old San Antonio River Parade in San Antonio. Texas is ocean beaches, deserts, lake s and rivers, mountains and prairies, and modern cities.

If it isn't in Texas, you probably don't need it.

No one does anything bigger or better than it's done in Texas.

By federal law, Texas is the only state in the U.S. that can fly its flag at the same height as the U.S. flag. Think about that for a second. You fly the Stars and Stripes at 20 feet in Maryland, California, or Maine and your state flag, whatever it is, goes at 17 feet. You fly the Stars and Stripes in front of Pine Tree High in Longview or anyplace else at 20 feet, the Lone Star flies at the same height - 20 feet. Do you know why? Because it is the only state that was a republic before it became a state.

Also, being a Texan is as high as being an American down here. Our capitol is the only one in the country that is taller than the capitol building in Washington, D.C. and we can divide our state into five states at any time if we wanted to! We included these things as part of the deal when we came on. That's the best part, right there.

Texas even has its own power grid!!

If you are a REAL TEXAN you won't even need to be told to pass this on!

 

[Planogirl]

I live fairly close to Southfork.

I take back not wanting to live in East Texas. I do like Canton and Tyler. I think of them not being too east if that makes any sense.

I love this thread, is it obvious?

 

[rt2dz]

I'm not a Texan, but DH is and we reside in TX.

 

[RadioNate]

Like the OP we are just north of SA but up I10 not 35. I love it here and I NEVER expected to become a Texan. I was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago and Texas was nothing more than a punch line.

We've lived in 7 states from Oregon to Florida but this area is #1 on my list.

 

[ElizK]

I am 5th generation Texan! I was born in Houston, but I've lived lots of other places. I was 13 when we moved back to Texas. Married a man born in Texas who also lived lots of other places. And we've contributed 2 to the Texas population!

 

[Aimeedyan]

We are in a Ft Worth suburb, now. Love it here!

(Grew up mainly in Dallas area)

 

[KristaTX]

Hello all! I am in Mansfield texas which is between Dallas and FW!

Wow. I work in the schools in Kennedale and know several people in Mansfield. But my wow is about your 40,000+ posts . How have I never seen you here before??

Texas threads like this are great . Now I have lots more people to pester when we have DFW DIS meets (which is quite often, right m&m'smom??) .

 

[Kirby]

Native Texan here! I was raised in Dallas but now live just east of it.

 

[KathyTX]

Another Texan checking in- 5th generation!

I'm in Flower Mound. Looks like Flower Mound is very well represented here...

(Did you know that the 1970 population of Flower Mound was a whopping 1,685? By 1980 it had grown to 4402. In 1990, we were up to 15,527. We're up to around 70,000 now. No wonder there's always a line to get into Anamia's! )

 

[DHSsenior007]

An hour north of Dallas on Highway 75 here... Hi!

 

[Boston Tea Party]

A little Texas "Where in the World"

 

[Boston Tea Party]

An hour north of Dallas on Highway 75 here... Hi!

Go yellowjackets!

 

[dbarker]

We are in Waco.

 

[DHSsenior007]

Go yellowjackets!

Heck yes! How did you know?