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1   Patrick   2018 Jun 20, 7:52am  

It would be more effective if it had more humor in it. Sounds kinda butthurt.

Their anti-littering billboards of "Don't Mess With Texas" were actually spot-on. Got the message across in a vaguely threatening Texan tone, but still funny.

Ideas for better wording for this sign?
2   zzyzzx   2018 Jun 20, 8:01am  

Patrick says
Ideas for better wording for this sign?


Sign should give directions on how to get to California.
3   tovarichpeter   2018 Jun 20, 8:07am  

You don’t want to get sick in Texas

Nearly two-thirds of Texans say the state isn’t doing enough to help low-income adult residents get healthcare http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2018/06/17/a-new-healthcare-poll-is-bad-news-for-ted-cruz-and-texas-gop/
4   komputodo   2018 Jun 20, 8:42am  

Patrick says
Ideas for better wording for this sign?


LIBERALS, please try to control your hysterics while in our GREAT STATE OF TEXAS.
5   komputodo   2018 Jun 20, 8:45am  

tovarichpeter says
You don’t want to get sick in Texas

Nearly two-thirds of Texans say the state isn’t doing enough to help low-income adult residents get healthcare http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2018/06/17/a-new-healthcare-poll-is-bad-news-for-ted-cruz-and-texas-gop/


Or take the time and effort to learn how to take care of yourself so you don't have to run to the doctor for every minor ailment.
6   MrBark   2018 Jun 20, 8:47am  

Went to Texas last week. 100 degrees, 80% humidity. Bad roads and even worse drivers. A Chili's and Olive Garden on every corner. Obesity everywhere. Half-ass built offices, hotels and homes that look similar in quality to what you would see in a third world country. Getting off the plane back home where it was 68 degrees: priceless.
7   FortWayne   2018 Jun 20, 9:15am  

Better than CA that liberals turned into a giant homeless shelter with fags and transgender retards in between.

MrBark says
Went to Texas last week. 100 degrees, 80% humidity. Bad roads and even worse drivers. A Chili's and Olive Garden on every corner. Obesity everywhere. Half-ass built offices, hotels and homes that look similar in quality to what you would see in a third world country. Getting off the plane back home where it was 68 degrees: priceless.
8   Patrick   2018 Jun 20, 9:44am  

zzyzzx says
Patrick says
Ideas for better wording for this sign?


Sign should directions on how to get to California.


That's better for sure.

Or how about some play on the fact that California is actually far less tolerant of diversity of opinion than Texas is?
9   Bd6r   2018 Jun 20, 10:59am  

Perhaps something like this would be useful:

10   Bd6r   2018 Jun 20, 11:00am  

Feux Follets says
@Mr. Bark - you forgot to mention the masses of pickup trucks, (plus points for a gun rack and a rebel flag in the back window, duallys get double the plus points, the service roads, the flooding...paradise indeed !

Let's not forget the petro-chem plants competing with Louisiana for the most cancer causing corridors, air and water quality.

The home state of the Bush family, Rick Perry, Tom Delay, Joel Osteen - what a place !

That is why people from left-leaning states move to TX en masse, no?
11   Heraclitusstudent   2018 Jun 20, 11:12am  

jvolstad says
Texas billboard tells liberals to keep driving until they leave the state


This kind of trend may have disastrous long term consequences. The US can split into separate countries.
This is what happens when you don't cultivate tribalism around the nation (aka nationalism), but you ride political tribalism high, dividing people, every minutes of every day in the media.
12   MrBark   2018 Jun 20, 11:30am  

What's funny about the liberal or conservative labels is that they now only apply to the far fringes of each. In no way do I wanted to be branded with either of those labels because the truth is that the majority of folks are much more diverse in their ideology.
13   marcus   2018 Jun 20, 11:32am  

Patrick says
the fact that California is actually far less tolerant of diversity of opinion than Texas is


Obviously

jvolstad says

14   Bd6r   2018 Jun 20, 11:36am  

Feux Follets says
Supposedly cheap housing until you factor in the cost of utilities, home insurance, flood insurance etc. - Texas never crossed my mind when I decided to leave a left leaning state.

Can't speak for the others

A decade plus of living in the Great Banana Republic of Louisiana along with entirely too many business trips to Texas took care of that decision for me very easily.

Then we have the environment, air and water quality - speaking of flood insurance anyone catch the spiffy pictures of all of the flooding going on again plus the comments from the residents that they are still dealing with the after effects of last years floods and hurricane that were "taken care of" with great help from the administration...


http://www.newgeography.com/content/005837-the-migration-millions-2017-state-population-estimates

People do move to TX from CA, IL, NY, etc. Which means that TX is more attractive and that TX does something right, while CA, IL, NY do something wrong. It is not exclusively left vs. right issue (although it appears that most are moving out of left-leaning states), as Wi, MS also lose population. Perhaps reason is that TX batshit crazy legislature meets for two months every two years and they do not have enough time to screw up economy with new laws, as they usually fight about bathrooms. In CA, the batshit crazy legislature is probably micromanaging businesses into ground and taxing middle class into oblivion.

Feux Follets says
Midwest I am living in an area that is more diverse by any metric than any I lived in elsewhere


I live in a minority-majority city in TX and it is very tolerant, much more so than most other places. Mayor was a D lesbian yet R's have a fighting chance in elections, which is extremely unusual for a large city. Can not get more diverse than that in opinion or ethnicity. And yes, weather does suck badly here - that I agree completely with. Also, there are much fewer confederate flags in TX than in other Southern states - they like here their state flag.
15   marcus   2018 Jun 20, 11:37am  

Feux Follets says
MrBark says
the truth is that the majority of folks are much more diverse in their ideology.


Right here in the good old boring Midwest I am living in an area that is more diverse by any metric than any I lived in elsewhere and by and large there is little to no adverse bullshit by anyone towards anyone.


Patrick needs to explain to you why too much diversity is bad. What, they haven't learned that there ? What's wrong with them ? That's unAmerican of them. Next thing you'll tell me is that your region didn't go for Trump. Again, how unamerican of them.

Where is that, btw ?
16   Bd6r   2018 Jun 20, 11:52am  

Feux Follets says
the people I had to work with.


I really enjoy people here - they are not stuck up, are very friendly, not closeted in their ethnic group, and dare I say not too politically extremist. One of my coworkers of S. American extraction said that in NY people mostly socialized in their ethnic circle, while here they mingle much more. Perhaps because there is no single major ethnic group, and perhaps because they are driven by money more than by any ideology. In a way this goes against Patrick's idea about problems caused by diversity.

Life standard here is also way higher than I could have on coasts with RE and rent prices and taxes. Availability of jobs in my field is phenomenal. Nothing I can do about the weather and corrupt local politics though.
17   Ceffer   2018 Jun 21, 9:40am  

See how smart Texans are. If the liberals keep driving, they will fall off the edge of the world.
18   zzyzzx   2018 Jun 21, 10:06am  

Spotted in Texas:
19   RWSGFY   2018 Jun 21, 11:09am  

Heraclitusstudent says
jvolstad says
Texas billboard tells liberals to keep driving until they leave the state


This kind of trend may have disastrous long term consequences. The US can split into separate countries.
This is what happens when you don't cultivate tribalism around the nation (aka nationalism), but you ride political tribalism high, dividing people, every minutes of every day in the media.


Some argue US is more like "11 nations" than one:



https://amp.businessinsider.com/the-11-nations-of-the-united-states-2015-7

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