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(Edit: downvote me all you want, but it's Texas that's enabling intelligent design proponents to inject their nonsense into our science textbooks. Similar factions are using that inroad to whitewash history, as well)
I live on the far west edge of Europe, unfortunately a lot of the population have a screwed stereotype vision of Americans and the US. Some of it might be deserved (the Bush years done incredible damage to the reputation of the US) a lot of it is not, and this is coming from my multiple experiences over the years of visiting almost every one of the lower 48 states. As for Texas its probably one of my more favourite l…
And Texans use the word "European" to mean limp wristed and weak.
As a side note: I briefly lived in the UK. Once while on vacation on the continent a tour guide asked everyone in the group where we came from. The other Americans in the group all said "America" or "the States", but we said "Texas". The tour guide said that's always what Texans say.
:-)
"like the “wild west,” and at least back when the expression was coined, the “wild west” held very strong Texas associations" - I think that's the key before anyone gets upset. Sounds like it's a holdover/modification of the way Americans use/d "wild west"
And Texans use the word "European" to mean limp wristed and weak.
To be fair any Texan who thinks of Europeans as being limp wristed and weak probably thinks that of anybody not Texan.
Mostly in good fun though
Anders Breivik was certainly texas.
Sentencing him to 21 years in a prison where about $1 million was spent by designers on paintings, photography and light installations, and where authorities hire "friends" so that Breyvik has someone to play hockey and chess with - that seems completely texas to me!