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From my anecdotal experience growing up, Texas used to be a lot more chill when it came to civil rights. It was a lot more common to hear, "I don't agree with you, but it's your right to do it" than it was to experience truly hateful people. They still existed, but the average person tended to get annoyed or offended by the outspoken, hateful people, even if their views aligned. Somewhere along the way it started going downhill (before Trump), and then Trump gave it a big shove which is why Texas is where it is today.
Edit: also, something a lot of people forget is how massive Texas is as a state. Any single European country can comfortably fit inside of Texas with room to spare. There's a reason why Texans tend to talk about distance in terms of minutes or hours instead of yards or miles.
you think that's big. My state can fit texas in it 4 times.
Listen to George HW Bush, from Texas, talking about immigration in a debate with Reagan (who also talks about “an open border both ways”). Reagan ruined a lot of things, but it still used to be different. https://youtu.be/YsmgPp_nlok
One thing that tends to be overlooked is that the Californians and other people that move to TX tend to be hard R voters. In fact, according to the Dallas Morning News, native Texans voted for Beto 51-48 when he ran against Cruz, while people who moved here voted 57-42 in favor of Cruz.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2018/11/09/native-texans-voted-for-native-texan-beto-o-rourke-transplants-went-for-ted-cruz-exit-poll-shows/
Pretty sure all Americans do that. A result of a car based society.
I have heard people talk like that in NYC.
Yeah it's because miles are meaningless when you're encountering traffic along the way.
I remember once being just out of walking distance of a place I wanted to go to, the mass transit "distance" being well over an hour, and the taxi "distance" being about ten minutes.
Something is far when it takes me a while with loads of effort to get to it. Something is close when I can get to it quickly and easily. Western PA is further from me than London is. One involves a single flight and one train, the other involves a 10 hour drive with traffic, PA drivers, and PA roads.
How? They use same road. Assuming there are 10 between each for one minute(which is a lot, usually it's 10-15 seconds), it would add 10 minutes.
For example my route from home to uni takes 45-100 minutes driving, 50 minutes with two changes or 65-70 minutes with one change.
Oh because there wasn't a direct bus or train route from where I was to where I wanted to go. It was Long Island.
Nah, in Europe same thing except minutes are different. 15 minutes means about 1 kilometer.