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Originally posted by dj_bas That's because you're from Texas

i am suck

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Originally posted by prolikewhoa i am suck

but you always say you wanna get out of texas so no?

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles There are a few groups who want that. My mom is a prosecuting attorney and actually prosecuted a woman who claimed that she was "out of U.S. jurisdiction" because Texas was still its own country. But those people are considered nutcases and aren't very common. Many Texans do have a lot of pride. You'll see the Texas flag, the same size and height as the U.S. flag, flying at banks and car dealerships and all sorts of places. This probably has a little to do with formerly being an independent country and a little to do with the sheer size of the state: it is larger in land area than many countries (France or Germany or Spain, for example), so it seems big enough to be a country by itself. I don't consider being a Texan a very big deal, but quite a few people take a lot of pride in it.

thanks for ya explanation!

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Originally posted by trunks1022 well if you want to go even further, i think of myself as a new yorker. not even new york state, but new york city. it's just a function of where you involve yourself most of the time. i think if i'm traveling to another country, that's when my nationality comes to the forefront of my mindset. hope that helps!

ah, thank you. when people ask where i am from i always say new york. i am a new yorker first, then an american. to me NY is so different from the rest of america in my mind. but i think that is just NY attitude.

i dont know why i do it, but i am glad to see someone else does it.

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I think personal identity depends in part on the state. Texas and California seem to be much stronger identifiers than say, Indiana or Iowa.

+1, exactly what I was gonna say.

I'm from Miami first and foremost, personally, then Florida and then the US.

Really depends where you are. If you're with a bunch of people from other states, you're going to rep your state. It'd be rediiculase to rep your country with your fellow citizens. If you're with foreigners, then you'd mostly be american.

When questioned by an American Im a Washingtonian (elitist) and when questioned by a foreigner I spit in their face (American).

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Originally posted by Sunsnail Really depends where you are. If you're with a bunch of people from other states, you're going to rep your state. It'd be rediiculase to rep your country with your fellow citizens. If you're with foreigners, then you'd mostly be american.

I'd add that if you're from one of the major cities, though, you're more likely to associate with that than with a state (for instance, when I lived in Chicago, I'd never say I was from Illinois, since Chicago is basically like its own state, and quite different from the rest of Illinois).


As for the books you're referring to, I've only ever heard of such things in news stories about, say, one school in the middle of nowhere, Alabama, that might've put them in for one grade level, or something. The presence of such texts is widely exaggerated for shock value.

gm...interesting questions. i always referred to myself as being from chicago. and i always refered my heritage as irish/scottish/german.

but then again, i would always be talking to people in the states.

when i was overseas in germany, that's when i would say i was from america first....then if they asked where, i would get more specific.

French social studies teachers enjoy taking small, isolated examples from obscure parts of America and make them into class discussions

I think somepeople also identify with their region most. Myself, i wouldn't say i was a "north carolinian" i would say i was a southerner. As would a lot of people from the south (not counting florida, its not part of the south). If with someone from within my state, i identify by my city. If anywhere else in the country, i say my state. If out of the ****ry, i avoid being asked that question.

my mom is from LA.

I'd say the major geographical regions pretty much have their own subculture.
I would categorize them as "The South�, Midwest�, East Coast�, and West Coast�."

A conundrum for the state I live in is nobody knows what is a "Hoosier."
There is much debate among the residents of the state how exactly we became known as a "Hoosier",
and what exactly it is. http://alumni.indiana.edu/about/fun/hoosier.shtml

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