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Geez, what’s wrong with Texas?
by social_quotient 7y ago
Geez, what’s wrong with Texas?
- journalctl 7y agoIt’s hot and you can’t be black/queer/female there.
- ozzmotik 7y agothe hot thing is true but as someone who was born and raised in Texas and spent 28 years there I do think that you're somewhat exaggerating with that other bit
- selimthegrim 7y agoBarbara Jordan’s ghost is spinning in her grave
- collegespam 7y agoAhh yes, as everyone knows, Texas is populated exclusively by straight white men. In reality, I live in Houston, which is the most diverse city in the nation. Maybe do your homework before flaming?
- amyjess 7y agoHi, I'm a queer woman in Texas. UT Dallas alumna even.
- some_random 7y agoDidn't you hear? The US is nothing but barbarian wasteland outside of California.
- aty268 7y agoApparently, yet masses of people are flocking to the 20th century wasteland Texas from California anyhow.
- droithomme 7y agoWell Texas used to be OK before all the people from California moved there.
- texasthrowaway 7y agoI think a lot of people will find Texas (and many other states, with a few exceptions) to be very American, for lack of a better word. This globalized world seems to give many an international perspective on things, and it's hard not to want to live in a place with cultural diversity and influences. Places like New York, Seattle, LA and SF feel way more international and diverse, and once you're there, you don't imagine yourself going back to, say, a place like Dallas. Nothing intrinsically wrong with it, but different strokes for different folks. I'd personally feel like I had traveled back to the 20th century if I had to move there.
- selimthegrim 7y agoThere was a tweet going around about the recent ALCS to the effect of “The Yankees are losing to Houston because it’s the most diverse food city in the country and New York has 23 chains named Sweetgreens”
- CydeWeys 7y agoNYC is an unbelievably diverse food city though. You can get anything here. So that tweet doesn't really land. I'm not saying Houston isn't good either (haven't been), but NYC is great by that metric.
- selimthegrim 7y agohttps://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/1185045786813448192 https://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/1185045786813448192
- amyjess 7y agoDallas is one of the most diverse parts of the US. The sheer amount of different ethnic food I regularly eat here is mind-boggling, and it actually made it very hard to pick a place when I was considering moving a few years ago (I wanted a place that was both just as diverse and just as suburban as Dallas; I ended up deciding I'd pick Vegas in case circumstances drove me to leave), and I've interacted with so many people from so many different countries and cultures.