Texas is Not Better than Oklahoma, It's Just a Good Place to Live for Some

[legelegel]

Texas pride can make Texas appear better than it reality is. Oklahomans can certainly learn a thing or two from the pride that shines south of the Red River.

Yes, it's probably more attitude than anything. We should be proud to be called "Okies". I certainly prefer it over Oklahoma's other nickname. I'm getting use to "Okie State" more and more each day. I'm still having a little problem with the Cowboys being called "Okie Lite", but it does leave one with the connotation of having less calories and maybe more lean and mean than our more heavy brethren to the south.

Not everything in Texas is bigger and better either. I see the tallest building west of the Mississippi arisin' in downtown OKC, and it will be standing tall at 925 feet in 2012.

Texas is not better it's just different, and I like being called an Okie and the difference it brings. I like living north of the Red River were it snows some but not too much. I like the four true seasons of the year Oklahoma has to offer. I will never live anywhere else as long as the choice is mine. I believe those that want to live in Texas should go live in Texas. It is certainly a fine place to live, but it is not a better place to live than Oklahoma.

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[FalseGod]

North Texas minus Dallas is pretty much exactly the same as Oklahoma. There is quite a difference as you move further south though.

[kworange]

Are you kidding? As you drive down I 35, you instantly pass from some dinky little farms and bad roads into Texas, with ranches and good roads. You could close your eyes and know when you crossed the border. Of course, the same applies to north bound travel on I 35 into Kansas. Not so different if you are traveling into Arkansas.

[FalseGod]

I think this sums up the Texas lovers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4PHV6NdCWE&feature=player_embedded

[GoPokes83]

I doubt you'll find too many on this board that don't love Oklahoma.

[CowboyJD]

I think this sums up the Texas lovers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4PHV6NdCWE&feature=player_embedded

Guilty as charged.

Oklahoman by choice. Texan by the grace of God!:party-smiley-018:

[RedDirtCowboy]

I despise the fact that I ever lived in West Texas. I have never wanted to live in the Hill Country. I don't miss Houston. I miss North Dallas. I am happy in OKC.

[Inky29]

I currently live in Dallas and will probably live here the rest of my life. However I've told my daughter she doesn't have to say the Texas Pledge because she was born in Oklahoma and she's not a Texan. Im proud of being from Oklahoma and I'm going to make damn sure my daughter is proud of being a Oklahoman.

[Plano Cowboy]

I currently live in Dallas and will probably live here the rest of my life. However I've told my daughter she doesn't have to say the Texas Pledge because she was born in Oklahoma and she's not a Texan. Im proud of being from Oklahoma and I'm going to make damn sure my daughter is proud of being a Oklahoman.


Family and I moved to Plano in Dec '93 due to job move. We never thought we would ever move from Oklahoma. We feel it has been good for all. All three of our children were born in OKC. They know their roots. All three graduated from Plano schools, son attended and graduated from OSU in 2003, working and living in Houston; daughter graduated from Texas A&M in 2006, living here in Plano teaching special ed in an elementary school; youngest daughter will graduate from SFA next May, plans to be a middle school special ed teacher here in Plano. Current plans call for us to live here the rest of our lives because we like it. If we move back to Oklahoma, it will probably be back to Tulsa. Wife and I were born there and we still have family ties there. We all are proud to be from Oklahoma......but we enjoy living in Texas, too.

[CowboyJD]

I despise the fact that I ever lived in West Texas.

Weird that.

I love the fact that I was born and raised in West Texas. Lubbock was the big city for me growing up.

[legelegel]

I currently live in Dallas and will probably live here the rest of my life. However I've told my daughter she doesn't have to say the Texas Pledge because she was born in Oklahoma and she's not a Texan. Im proud of being from Oklahoma and I'm going to make damn sure my daughter is proud of being a Oklahoman.

You got to be kidding. I was not aware of this pledge of allegiance to a state flag. Is Texas alone in this? I guess this kind of locks up the question of Texas ever dividing itself into 5 different states.

Current Pledge of Allegiance to State Flag
House Bill No. 1034 was filed on February 1, 2007 and changed the wording of the pledge to read

Honor the Texas flag;
I pledge allegiance to thee,
Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.

Governor Rick Perry signed the legislation on June 16, 2007.

The Salute to the Flag of Texas Flag
as enacted, March 1933. House Bill No. 575:

'Honor the Texas Flag of 1836;
I pledge allegiance to thee,
Texas, one and indivisible.'

The pledge, as adopted, incorrectly referred to the Texas national flag of 1836. Interestingly, it does not appear that anyone took notice of this error until 1951, when Senator Searcy Bracewell introduced a bill to correct this reference. It took the legislature another 14 years, until 1965, to finally correct the problem.http://www.netstate.com/states/symb/pledges/tx_pledge.htm

More on the New Texas Pledge of Allegiance:

http://www.texaslre.org/downloads/lessons/Aug%2007%20THE%20NEW%20TEXAS%20PLEDGE.pdf

[RedDirtCowboy]

Weird that.

I love the fact that I was born and raised in West Texas. Lubbock was the big city for me growing up.

I lived in Seminole, Tx for a year (80 miles S of Lubbock, 60 miles N of Mid/Odessa and 30 miles E of Hobbs, NM). I met a lot of people out there that loved it. I grew up with hills, oaks, lakes. Out there everything just seemed dead all the time...sand storms...isolation...

I tried to find things to like but I honestly couldn't.

[legelegel]

I lived in Seminole, Tx for a year. ... I tried to find things to like but I honestly couldn't.

Not even the ... ?


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[CowboyJD]

I lived in Seminole, Tx for a year (80 miles S of Lubbock, 60 miles N of Mid/Odessa and 30 miles E of Hobbs, NM). I met a lot of people out there that loved it. I grew up with hills, oaks, lakes. Out there everything just seemed dead all the time...sand storms...isolation...

I tried to find things to like but I honestly couldn't.

Odessa, TX. for the first 14 years if my life.

[Poohness]

Grew up in Midwest City and have lived in DFW since 1985. Came here because of the job. IMHO, it is six one way, half-a-dozen the other. I like and could live in either state. I think delineating the differences is over-rated.