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yeah what now what state are you in

What state are you in?

I am from another country.

yeah like say Houston now i would now me not even knowing anything about Houston i would think that it's a pretty calm city

i don't know much about Houston, but i would guess it's a placid place

i've been to Houston, so i know it's a really hectic city

well the next time you go across the state line or when you come back in be sure and stop at one of the Texas

Be sure to stop at the one in Texas next time.

Texas does not have one.

yeah especially in Texas period

especially within Texas

especially in Ohio

okay i'm in Garland

I am currently in Garland.

I am not in Garland.

yeah well i don't know you're in Massachusetts i think the the market is a little bit different here

I don't know how it is there.

I know exactly how it is there.

and i talked to my parents on the phone i said you know we Texans are a funny breed we we water we water we spend hundreds of dollars a month during the dry part of July August watering our lawn we go out and spend thirty or forty dollars a whack on fertilizer and then we bitch and gripe about having to mow it so often

I think that Texans are a bit quirky because we spend so much money on our lawns.

Down in Texas the people there don't spend any money on looking after their lawns.

my um husband's father has a place out in East Texas so he's always digging up little red oaks and things like that and trying to bring them back and start them but

There are little red oaks in East Texas.

My husband takes little red oaks with him when he visits East Texas.

so i'm in Lubbock Texas yeah

I am in Lubbock Texas.

I have never been to Texas.

um-hum are you a a native Texan oh well good for you have you ever been to Austin

Are you originally from Texas?

Are you a native Canadian?

yeah i'm i'm we're not from Texas we're from further we're from Missouri so it's it's

Texas is not where we are from, we are from Missouri.

We are definitely from Texas.

Here in Canada.

Inside of Canada.

There in France.

already already hit Oklahoma and probably right down here soon so

Oklahoma has been hit but not here where I am.

We were hit before Oklahoma was.

they hold competitions in Los Angeles in um Florida and Minneapolis Minneapolis um um trying to think of i think it's in four places around the United States they hold competition and the only requirement is of course your skill of passing these tests

The competition is held in Los Angeles, Florida and Minneapolis.

They don't hold any competitions.

uh right here in Maryland

Here in Maryland.

Not in Maryland.

where have you have you played any in Texas

Where in Texas have you played?

Why have you never played in Texas?

and i i certainly i i grew up in a smaller town in Texas and it wasn't that way when i was younger

The small town I grew up in was in Texas and it certainly wasn't that way.

Nothing had changed in my small town in Texas, and that brought me joy.

oh okay huh oh well it's funny you should say something like that because uh i'm from Dallas for thirty two years i was from New England originally

I lived in New England for thirty two years.

I've lived most of my life in Dallas.

to uh Texas a year and a half ago

To Texas, eighteen months ago.

To Texas, two years ago.

oh okay well i'm a Tech graduate so

I graduated from Tech.

I went to State.

the two cities are very very identical so if you were familiar with Atlanta

Atlanta is very similar.

Atlanta is its own city.

Well, Texas sure is a great big piece o' country, so maybe you don't know 'bout them river tricks.

Texas is a rather large area, so perhaps you don't know some things.

Greenland is a nice time to visit in the summer, so maybe you know about the travel plans.

where do you what area do you live in oh okay i live in Dallas uh Rowlett

Where do you live? I live in Rowlett, Dallas.

I have never been to or lived in Dallas.

uh in the Houston area

Located in or close to Houston.

It's quite far from Houston.

twenty miles is going is just going a little different way it's probably twenty miles longer than my normal way to work i live in Rhode Island work in Massachusetts but

Rhode Island is where I call home.

I live in Massachusetts and work in Rhode Island.

so why'd you move up to Colorado

I want to know what's going on in Colorado.

You should go to Maine instead.

that's exactly what happened to us we were living um in Minneapolis at the time and we were getting ready to come back to Texas um and i went i mean into a Waldon's and stood in line for like six hours it seemed like but i haven't read it there is a good one out though that we've had for a few years that i've actually read more than once it's called The Kingdom of Sound

We were living in Minneapolis and were planning to come back to Texas.

I've never read anything called The Kingdom of Sound.

yeah suburban track yeah we uh we lived out of state for a while and came back and uh we lived in a smaller city and now we say gee Dallas really is big and polluted

Dallas is large and polluted compared to the city we came from.

Dallas is cleaner and smaller than the city we came from.

well me i'm going and my daughter down in Austin

My daughter lives in Austin.

My daughter lives in Provo.

they killed i'm in Dallas

There were murders, so I left for Dallas.

I do not live in Dallas.

that's marvelous just marvelous well i work in I A Smith so we're forever looking at something else uh i you know i work

My work is in IA, so this is awesome.

I don't work in IA so this really isn't helpful to me.

well we uh when we graduated from school in Houston uh my husband went went to school at Rice and got his PhD so that that's what brought us here and um we had um heard a lot about Richardson being a good area and the homes there being really nice and but we kind of just got the impression it was out of our price range

Other people had told us that Richardson was a lovely place to live but it might be too expensive for us.

Richardson is a very drab area but the prices seem very affordable to us.

yeah i'm in Dallas and they're long here too so

They're here in Dallas and so am I.

I'm in Dallas, but they are long gone.

oh okay the first person i've talked to outside of Texas

This is the first person I had a conversation with that is not from Texas.

I have had discussions with many people outside of Texas.

right right well do you live like along uh Houston

You live near Houston.

You live on the other size of Texas from Houston.

what about people from uh Pennsylvania what do they think about Texans

what opinions do people in Pennsylvania hold about people in Texas

what kind of opinions do Texans hold about themselves?

west Texan

So you're from west Texas?

You've never been to Texas?

i did it right as she said yeah but uh she's she's down in San Antonio it's it's a uh

She's down in San Antonio

She is right here by my side

What part of Texas are you from?

What area of Texas do you originate from?

What part of Kentucky are you from?

what division y'all in

What division are you guys in?

What zip code do you have?

(The survey starts in the Northeast and works its way clockwise around the country.

The survey covers the whole country.

The survey covers only Texas.

there could be yeah there could be and and it came i mean i used to i used to work in Boston which was an hour and a half away

I worked in Boston in the past, an hour and 30 minutes distance.

I have never worked in Boston, but would like to.

this actually i i'd have to confess i don't really scope out the New Orleans games per say New Orleans just isn't isn't one of the areas i've lived in so many places i've lived in uh

Since I've never lived in New Orleans, I don't attend their games.

I usually scope out the New Orleans games, since I lived there last year.

Down Sonora way one of them Mexes would dig right down to th' bottom of his money chest to buy a hoss like that.

In Sonora, there are Mexicans who would like to buy a horse like that.

There are no Mexicans down in Sonora.

We're halfway through Utah.

We are making our way through the state of Utah.

We have yet to begin the drive through Utah.

well well and especially around North Dallas or at least in Plano area they basically all look alike because Fox and Jacobs and

Because of Fox and Jacobs, in North Dallas or at least in Plano they all look alike.

In Plano everything looks very different from one another.

i'm thirty five miles north of Dallas in McKinney it's a small town there's only one cable system here and i've called griped about them not having A E A and E but they don't have it i mean in Dallas they do

I'm in a small town called McKinney.

I'm in Dallas but a lot of my friends come from McKinney.

yeah yeah you you've got to be a a Texas member but if you are a master member of Texans the membership to Texoma is free

Master members of Texas are eligible for free membership to Texoma.

I'm sorry, you'll need to apply for a Texoma membership even if you are already a member of Texas.

that's true certainly not localized there

It isn't localized there.

It is localized there.

Simmons works most directly with residents of the approximately 55,700 mobile homes in Iowa.

This person focuses on people in the state of Iowa who live in manufactured homes.

This person works exclusively with Saudi millionaires.

see originally i've been in Texas twelve thirteen years but originally in LA they people die all the time just from being in the way at the wrong place you know see you know but i think something should be done for them

I'm originally from L.A. where you can die just from being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Los Angeles is safe.

you did you actually live in Saint Louis

It is true that you lived in Saint Louis.

So you don't even know where Saint Louis is.

Texas yeah i'm in California right now i'm i'm originally from North Carolina though i

I am a native of North Carolina.

I was born and raised in Texas.

Texas Instruments thirty thousand people in the whole area right and then my building inside it's fairly large and there's no reason for me to have to go from point A to point B in an hour and a half

I see no point in me moving from point A to B in an hour and a half.

Texas Instruments has less than a thousand people in the area.

do you when you go to the Texans i have to ask you and if this is getting to we're not supposed to get too particular but i'm just curious

We're not supposed to get too particular.

We can get as particular as we want.

i teach but i teach for Dallas

I am a teacher in Dallas.

I am a student in Dallas.

no i'm in uh Maryland

Nope, I'm over in Maryland.

I've never been to Maryland.

Coincidentally, this is also the state of our schools, according to News Quiz participants.

News Quiz participants think that this is also the state of our schools.

No one participated in the News Quiz.

okay no i'm in California

No, I am located in California.

I am in the East Coast.

yeah uh i'm in Raleigh North Carolina

I'm in Raleigh, North Carolina.

I'm in California.

yeah uh in our country

In this country.

Not in our country.

And one did not ask intimate questions of a man riding west of the Pecos.

You just didn't make personal inquiries of folks out here.

There were no people at all west of Pecos.

uh-huh well i guess the only people i've talked to before were from Texas so i

I have only talked to those from Texas before this.

I have talked to people from California.

and this kind of thing and i think that Dallas it turns out though from what i understand has quite good i occasionally go to Saint Louis and uh there for a few days and watch the news and and i think Dallas really does have

Once in awhile I like to go to Saint Louis for a few days.

I have yet to visit Saint Louis but it is on my bucket list.

when i was in Houston there was one station of just uh it was uh the University of Houston station

There is a University of Houston station in Houston.

There was one at Boston University when I was in Houston.

yes i'm in San Antonio

Yes, I live in San Antonio.

No, I moved out of San Antonio last year.

so they're paying the phone bill yeah there must be Texas people as near as i can tell no okay i'm from the other coast all right bye bye

I think there are people from Texas near me.

The people near me sound like they are from Canada.

oh okay you just you just managed to escape the real Texan accent i thought maybe you had come from somewhere else and had some experience with taxes there

I figured you came from a place that had taxes.

I know you came from a place that paid taxes.

oh yeah because Houston was really hurricane alley wasn't it weren't there a lot of hurricanes there or

Houston was hurricane alley.

Houston doesn't get many hurricanes.

yeah well also New New Year's down here you've got to have black eyed peas

You have to have black eyed peas on New Year's down here.

You never serve black eyed peas on New Years down here.

are you in Texas now

Are you currently in Texas?

Are you in Vermont now?

i guess because well that guy is from Dallas that's probably about the only thing yeah that's it that's the only reason why i don't know anybody else

It's only because that guy's from Dallas.

I'm sure it's not because he's from Dallas.

yeah i'm down here at TI

Yes Im here at TI.

Nope i'm nowhere near TI.

Dallas yeah it's uh it's a nice area as it were about the only two things that uh didn't work out too well for us well one of them's nice in in a way we're on the beginning of a corner we live on a on a U shaped drive and we're the first house that they actually started turning to make for a turn on a on a cul-de-sac not a cul-de-sac but a turn on a ninety degree turn on the street which meant that we're not jammed right up against our neighbor's house

Our house is on a corner instead of a cul-de-sac.

Our house sits on a cul-de-sac.

oh well i'm i'm i'm a native born Texan but uh you know how it is

I'm native to Texas.

I'm native to Alabama.

i think well that's one thing i've noticed i've i've lived a couple of different places i've noticed Texas seems to have more elective offices than any place i've ever been

I have lived in more than one place.

I am not aware of any elected official information in Texas.

yeah no no i've just lived here but

This is where I live.

I do not live here at all.

uh-huh up north and um and so there's a lot of market up here since it's kind of the area that people are moving into in the Dallas area and big market for

There is a ton of market here due to the area and individuals moving into the Dallas area.

There isn't a lot of market here.

Hurricane Bret hit Texas.

Texas was struck by Hurricane Bret.

Texas has never experienced a Hurricane.

yeah yeah i i yeah i'm from west Texas

I'm from the western side of Texas.

I'm from Colorado.

nice talking to you too first person from not from Texas that i've talked to

You're the first person from somewhere other than Texas that i've spoken to.

All Texans like you are annoying.

After all, he was Texas-born.

He was not born in Florida.

He had been born in New York.

uh-huh oh yeah that's quite different from up here i guess yes

That's is pretty different from here, I think.

I think it's the same, it's not different from up here.

but uh i'm surprised i really am surprised you know that major cities you know especially in a state like Texas would elect a woman governor

It comes as quite a surprise to me for a place in Texas to elect a female governor.

I'm not surprised a major city in Texas elected a female governor.

okay i'm from Berkeley California

I'm from Berkeley.

I'm from Wisconsin.

yeah that that's the way they did it in Alabama too

That is how they did it in Alabama as well.

Texas didn't do it that way.

um it's between the Texas and Louisiana border

Right between Texas and Louisiana.

It's in the north.

yeah yeah well i i went to Dallas um when i worked for TI in Abilene and uh i i'm a little familiar with the city area Forest Lane and you know through that off off the freeway

I am familiar with Forest Lane because I worked in Abilene.

I never worked for TI in Abilene, Texas.

oh yeah i'm in Texas where are you at

Right now I'm located in Texas.

I'm in Illinois right now.

you probably don't see that where we see it you know once a month i'm sure in San Antonio they see it more often than that

In San Antonio they see it frequently, I'm sure about it.

They don't see it in San Antonio, do they?

oh i'm in Texas Plano uh-huh

I'm in Texas Plano.

I'm not in Texas.

uh-huh oh is that true now now we're we're in Texas now and you're in Texas right

You are also in Texas?

We're not in Texas.

trade in but it's a place in Arlington and i think maybe as you get outside the Dallas area i kind of i bet you it's kind of what i decided well maybe because it's outside of Dallas they are giving a little bit better

They probably give better prices outside of Dallas.

The prices outside Dallas are always lower than in Dallas.

yeah yeah i'm down in Houston

I am in Houston.

I never have been to Houston before.

yeah yeah i was down in Texas for two years and i was paying unbelievable rates for both car insurance and for home insurance um they

Car and home insurance rates are quite high in Texas.

Texas has very affordable insurance rates.

well they're not rigid enough here in Texas

Here in Texas, they aren't rigid enough.

They are far too rigid in Texas.

what division are y'all in

What boundary are you all in?

I don't care where you are.

is that right in the whole state

Do you mean in the whole state?

I am sure it is not the whole state.

right i live here in Plano yeah

I live in Plano.

I've never been to Plano.

but still i work in southeast Dallas and a lot of my children are from poor you know socioeconomic areas homes and it's just like they always have money they they always are dressed nice you know most of them are fairly nice not like you would think a a poor person would be

A lot of my children are from poor, you know, socioeconomic class areas homes, but I still work in southeast Dallas.

I work in East LA, but don't come here if you don't need to, it's quite a ghetto.