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In reply to the discussion: 10 reasons why so many people are moving to Texas [View all]MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)Is your point that I should disregard my own past experience there and take a liking to Texas today, for whatever particular reason?
I don't see why I should... Because, I'm never going back.
Besides, Michigan is my home and it's always been that way, in-spite of the fact that the government is currently held hostage by the Taliban wing of the Republican Party. In national elections, this is a blue state. We voted for Obama TWICE and currently seat two Democrats in the Senate.
Texas? Well...
Also this part of Michigan that I'm living in now is all BLUE.
Again, this is my home and my family is here. Texas, on the other hand, was a bad experience that I'm glad to leave behind.
One other thing, that was the only place that I've ever been that treated out of state GIs like crap. Bergstrom is no longer an Air Force base and somehow, I get the feeling that the folks there in Austin were quite pleased that it became just a regular local airport. That way, they don't have to deal with as many out of town GIs... You know, us "Yankees" and stuff.
Pretty much everywhere else I've been, well... they liked us guys, no strings. But there in Austin, they found reasons not to like us. "Yankee, Okie"..., You get my drift. And my Okie friend, just to let you know, he was pissed from the treatment he got. This wasn't just the good natured ribbing from rivals, he was insulted and ignored. Ignoring out of state GIs was common practice, I found. Not to mention the general segregation of Austin at the time, being a black guy from Detroit myself, looking for other black folks there.
I never got an answer why the Klan had it's own show on Public Access in a supposedly liberal part of the state while I was there. And, yes, I asked.
Texas and myself are better off without each other...
Later in life, I've met other non-Texans who feel quite the same way as well. Mine was not an isolated experience.