How to stop water pipes from freezing

[Nefarious]

See little round top battle of Gettysburg.  New York reinforced Michigan to save the hill from Texas.

 

There's a lot more to that story than one sentence, but it checks out.

[perdue3]

I will never understand why a Texan's pride of being from Texas verges on nationalism.

[NatCigg]

I will never understand why a Texan's pride of being from Texas verges on nationalism.

Because it is home.

Also, you are injecting your own bias that allows you to easily compartmentalize one stereotype into another.

[guncrasher]

I will never understand why a Texan's pride of being from Texas verges on nationalism.

I'm proud to be Californian and understand why Texans are proud to be from Tejas.

nothing to do with anything else.

semp

[Shuffler]

I will never understand why a Texan's pride of being from Texas verges on nationalism.

Close.... Texas was independent at one time.

[zack1234]

We stop pipes freezing by putting the heating up.
I don’t know how they stop pipes freezing in third world areas like Vietnam, Poland or Texas

[NatCigg]

[zack1234]

I will never understand why a Texan's pride of being from Texas verges on nationalism.

Nationalism is a myth in the 21st.

People are too busy shaving their spuds and talking about thier emotions.

[perdue3]

Close.... Texas was independent at one time.

Really?

[NatCigg]

Really?

For one engulfed in history, it is not hard to see the benefit of maintaining as much independence from government as possible.  Texas has a wealth of resources and prime geography to act as it does.

[hazmatt]

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[FLS]

Really?

Republic of Texas  1836

[perdue3]

Because it is home.

Also, you are injecting your own bias that allows you to easily compartmentalize one stereotype into another.

True. I love my state (NC) and will argue that it is the best in the union for a plethora of reasons. But my pride in being a North Carolinian does not look like fanaticism as it does from Texans. Never does my love of state get confused with localized patriotism which would trump national patriotism. It is a very Texas thing that I suppose non-Texans see and do not understand that Texans do not see, but understand. Someone should write a Sociological essay on the matter  .

[hazmatt]

Our stores are filled with stuff labeled that it's from Texas. I buy it before I buy stuff labeled from Texas before some other state because I live here.

Somehow in today's "PC" world I'm sure that makes me thisaphobe or thataphoe or something worse! Lolz

[zack1234]

You speak for North Carolinian?

Your certainty and self opinionated Weltanschauung is self evident

Trump? He has gone now, get over it, Don Lemon, Kimmel and the rest of your celebrity idols need to do the same.

If i were in charge i would make you Gauleiter of Iceland