So who all is from the great state of TEXAS??

Moved here when I was about 4? Moved from Bryan to Waco to Temple to Houston to Round Rock and that's where I've been since 2nd grade!

I'm an import though. Straight from the Philippines!

Born & raised in Houston, now live in Buna-30 miles north of Beaumont. Wouldnt want to be any where else.

From NY, Lived in Dallas for 7 years and Currently in San Antonio!

Houston checking in!

Fort Worth here, and it was stinkin hot today!

Fort Worth here, and it was stinkin hot today!

^^OMG!! It totally was!!! LOL

Dallas here and sweating, sweating, sweating today!

Currently living in the DFW area - not sure I would call Texas "great" I've lived in 4 other states and a different country so I have a little perspective.

Sorry don't want to sound like I have an attitude or a jerk just really curious whats so great about Texas? I admit i haven't been there yet so no judgement is being passed I want to visit one day, (someone tell me where to start)

But what is the greatness?

I've lived in Houston now for over 4 years. I can tell you it's great to those who haven't lived anywhere else. As soon as folks move away for a good while, they realize there are better places to live. Sorry to be a downer on the most proud state but it's unrelentingly hot & humid,, people pretty much stay inside from May - Sept (I'm wet right now), no variety in the land (mtns, rivers, color...), its cities always top the national lists of most unfit & unhealthy places to live, the beaches are terrible, the food is good but it's cuz its very fattening (not a lot of healthy options), it's not clean land or air (at least in Houston).

That said, I do appreciate southern hospitality, but it's not found in a big melting pot city like Houston. You have to get away from the big cities to find that very much.

I find this kind of telling. People that have enough money to buy a vacation home or land, always buy land out of the state - usually Colorado or New Mexico - cuz that's the good land.

Ok, expecting hate mail in 3... 2... 1...

From Austin. I SOOO understand the difficulties of working out with the heat. I have changed my hours at work so that I can get it in during the wee morning hours while it is still relatively cool.

I'm from Roscoe so I totally understand the heat here. We go to Lubbock and watch Tech football. I try to do my workouts in the morning when it is cooler.

Coppell, TX right here! I've lived in Texas my whole life- most of it in the Dallas area, but I spent 7 years as a kid and then 4 of the best years of my life in Lubbock. (That's right- proud Texas Tech grad here!) I HATE the heat, but after having traveled extensively in Arizona over the past 4 years (since my BFF lives there now), I really think it is just the HUMIDITY I hate so much. I can actually be in the heat in AZ and not feel like I'm going to die! I hope to get in lots of pool time and early morning walking during the heat this summer.

Never ask a person where they're from. If they're from Texas, they'll tell you. If not, don't embarrass them.

To answer your question: People are just proud of Texas. Not all, mind you, but most. How? I don't know, probably because we can secede from America and still survive. Maybe because of the Alamo. Maybe because we have an independent power grid. Maybe it's because we have the best BBQ in the nation and 3 of them sit right in Lockhart.

Perhaps it's because of all the beautiful women. Maybe because of the diversity of the state as a whole. Could be because of the schools (Tech, UT, A&M, Baylor, etc...)

Maybe it's because people are just proud to be Texans.

I'm from San Antonio...even lived in Ft Worth for 3 1/2 years. After traveling all over the place in the military, I finally retired in Mississippi and love it here.

I'm in Friendswood. I have more of a beef with the mosquitoes than I do with the heat.

Texas here! I live just outside Austin.