Ive got a good friend here in asia who is a texan & he gets pissed when someone calls him an american . He is very fast to point out hes texan not american lol. Talking to another yank from san diego last night & he told me that texas & oregon ? i think have tried to succede from the US ..Only hearsay hopefully one of our american friends can clear it up .
Yup, sounds about right. Texas has a lot of good things going for it believe it or not except for the all of the illegals sneaking in. =S a bunch of states tried to secede recently. Texas and Oregon were countries at one point. Some Texans, whose families have been there since it was a country, get offended when you call them americans but most people. Most people in texas call themselves americans and not Texans unless they are talking about what state they are from.
Re: cecession, there are 5 southern US states inc. Texas that have a plan to form a union, should the US dissolve. Heard it from a Texan. Posted the story here somewhere a few years ago.
So back to the OP Cheap land, low tax, affordable housing, jobs where the pay goes further because everything is affordable (because taxes and land is low). Winning formula it does seem
Isn't Texas the centre of the alternative government in the TV series Jericho, in a post nuclear conflict world, from what I can remember they formed government with seccesionist states after learning it was the Washington/US government behind the nuclear attacks. A good show, what I could watch of it when it was on.
One theory is that Texas will be one of the nations after the collapse of the USA (see also USSR collapse). Only Texas joke I know: "So why do you Texans talk soft and slow?" "Well we observe our second amendment rights down here and so most people are patient enough to wait, and interested enough to find out what we're actually saying.
The Bass have been a bit quiet down the road at Glenlyon Dam... but it's still a nice part of the world...Tenterfield is just down the road too!
