Do you really hate Texas? If so, please elaborate if so inclined. I'm merely curious and don't wish to counter with what I perceive as the merits of Texas. I'm simply wondering why is all...
It’s probably just the shape. That huge thorn on the bottom side.
Now understand, I know enough about Texas and their culture to know what I am about to say is considered .... Blasphemous. There is a almost religious like devotion to Texas (Texas pride) that is not allowed to be questioned. So those that have drunk the kool aid will not like it, and end up calling me names etc. You are not allowed to pull the curtain back on Texas and say... “You know, the people are shallow, materialistic, and star struck by appearances... The place is hot, it smells, the weather sucks, and it is thousands of square miles of nothingness....”
I find the Texas culture to be very nice on the surface level ( southern hospitality) , but very in-authentic and superficial anything beyond initial niceties. I lived there for 4 years and I found that there is a pervasive ( not in every, but enough to make generalities)that what is shown on the outside is far more important than the inside. There can and are sick, dysfunctional things that go on in families, that as soon as they walk out of their house they completely pretend and defend to the death, that nothing is wrong.
I found that people could not allow others to see who they really are and spent most of their energy on appearances. It is this kinda weird culture that everyone knows it is taboo to express how you are really feeling.
Or what your personal faith is has little bearing on what you do in business or your personal life. If you can cheat your business partner and get away with it well, that’s okay because...”it’s just business”
And clear statistical example of this is this... The Dallas/Ft.Worth area is the most populated church area in the country. Highest stats of church attenders. That same area has the highest divorce rate and prescription drug abuse, child abuse, suicides in the country.
This is the fruit of a culture that is not authentic of what is happening below the surface.
So I can go on and on, but you get the picture. I have talked to people that have lived in both Texas and California and they find Texas to be far more materialistic and in authentic than california.