Texas can't take the NC pride out of me...

"I was raised in NORTH CAROLINA, where flip flops come out in February,everyone pulls over to let a funeral pression pass, we don't have fire flies,we have lightin' bugs, taters are mandatory, y"all is a proper noun, chicken is fried, biscuits come with gravy, sweet tea is the house wine, and you never, ever disrespect your elders!"


I read this today and had to laugh at how true it is. You don't always notice the "culture" of your hometown, it's a comfortable normal you call home; it's when you leave that comfortable surrounding and travel to live in a completely different one that you realize how many little things make "home" feel like home.


After 3 years of living in Texas I can say that Texas pride is a living breathing fact (and yes it's bigger, all things are in TX)!! I've come to love several things about this area of the cowboy nation: amazing thunderstorms, boots are considered everyday footwear, Tex Mex, and the dedication of sports fans (seriously you can still hear MAVS WON ringing in the air if you listen closely). I learned to have a love/hate relationship with the highways and road construction, but I still have no idea why they call it a "spur" road... and either does anyone else. My Spanish vocabulary increased ever so slightly, and I mean just a tiny bit. Summer heat has taken on a whole new kind of meaning surrounded by the "concrete jungle", you may be able to fry an egg on your sidewalk, but here in the "Big D" we can fry a steak! Yes, Texas is flat, mostly but there are perks to that; fewer tunnels and the wide open sky that goes on and on and on. I'm sure you've seen the bumper sticker, "I wasn't born in TX but I got here as fast as I could" or something similar. I don't plan to put one on my car, and though I do truly love this little slice of Texas they call the "Metro-plex" I'm still a Carolina girl and I'm going home.