Re: Tarrant County

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Be careful!


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 6:37 AM
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Just dinner. I'll be sleeping safely in Dallas.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 6:38 AM
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Just remember, that while Dallas ain't a woman to help you get your feet on the ground, Fort Worth is just a shithead.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 6:38 AM
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And don't forget to register first!


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 6:56 AM
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I guess I had a brief exposure to affluenza as a kid, including a sleepover at the Amon Carter home with my fourth grade class. Thinking about that led me to look up my classmate George, only to see that he passed away in 1992. Hell of a thing.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 7:48 AM
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Mother fucking Jesus Christ, I hate the world. (That is literally the sentence that went through my head when I saw the second article. Sir Kraab, unfiltered.)


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 7:55 AM
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Just remember, that while Dallas ain't a woman to help you get your feet on the ground, Fort Worth is just a shithead.

Before I saw this, I would have said that Fort Worth is infinitely preferable to Dallas.

Now I'll say that if we assume Dallas County is just as fucking racist as Tarrant County, which seems like a safe assumption, and you are white or otherwise have protected status, Forth Worth is infinitely preferable to Dallas.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:00 AM
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I don't know any songs about Fort Worth.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:04 AM
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Dallas Fort Worth is literally the same place.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:05 AM
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That's just the airport name.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:05 AM
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I don't think Debbie ever did Forth Worth.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:06 AM
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8: Really? (Such a good song.)


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:06 AM
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I was on a call with some Texans the other day and asked them what the difference was and one of them said "Dallas is where the South stops and Fort Worth is where the West starts". This was regarding hats, though.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:07 AM
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12: I've heard of him, but not that song.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:08 AM
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8: Or? Also good.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:09 AM
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Dallas Fort Worth is literally the same place.

Incorrect.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:10 AM
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13: Dallas is progressive-ish and Ft Worth is very red.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:10 AM
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Compass bearings must be really confusing at that airport.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:11 AM
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Maybe they steer by the red-blue gradient instead.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:12 AM
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Texas becomes less southern as you go south, generally.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:13 AM
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Just like Florida.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:16 AM
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That Texas map thingy in Bernie was excellent.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:20 AM
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Thingy.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:23 AM
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Such a good movie and weird story. You know he lived with Linklater when he was out on bail and awaiting resentencing for awhile?


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:24 AM
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I did! Did you see Boyhood?


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:25 AM
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Fort Worth is smaller, slower, pace-of-life-wise, cheaper, less crowded, less self important, and women don't wear hose & heels even when it's 102°.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:26 AM
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No, and i'm so embarrassed. You know big parts were filmed and take place in Heebieville?


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:26 AM
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Also, Carthage is in the same ballpark as Beaumont, and Beaumont (AIHSHB) is home to the accent that everybody instinctively adopts when trying to sound as dumb as possible.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:31 AM
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26: For the record, 9 was a joke. You provincials get so prickly. Is DFW functionally one big conurbation now or still separate cities?
27: It's really good! I bet you'd love it.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:31 AM
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Ft Worth was billing itself as 'where the west begins' when I was a kid, and probably before.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:35 AM
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Once upon a time (last I checked, 5 April 2018) black people in the South (and elsewhere) were circumspect about airing their opinions about various locales, for fear that they might regret making those statements.

Once upon a time, I thought that'd never happen to me. But sadly, I have to visit Fort Worth in the near future.


Posted by: Chetan Murthy | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:38 AM
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30: I bet you didn't know that Amarillo is the helium capital of the world.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:42 AM
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All I actually know about Dallas-Fort Worth is 1) fuck the Cowboys and 2) the highway system looks like a cock and balls.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:43 AM
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The Yellow Rose of Texas.


Posted by: Opinionated Blimp | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:44 AM
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29.2 Seconded. It's great. I've never seen Bernie. I'll have to rectify that soon.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:44 AM
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33: Those sack wrinkles seem gratuitous.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:49 AM
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Looking at wikipedia, I see that Ft Worth was 7.9% Hispanic in the 1970 census (we moved away in 1971) and 34.1% Hispanic in the 2010. Non-Hispanic white was under 42% in 2010, having been 72% in 1970.

I know folks are tired of hearing about Texas turning blue some day, but this stuff really is going to start to have an electoral impact eventually.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:49 AM
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Those sack wrinkles seem gratuitous.

That's what she said.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:55 AM
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I got contacted by someone from MOVE offering to come into my classes and give a ten minute pitch and register students to vote on the spot. That's never happened before. (I said sure.) So there's some minor anecdata of momentum in registering young Hispanic Texans to vote.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:55 AM
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32 Bad bet, friend. Drove through there a bunch of times in the 60s, visiting my grandparents in Colorado, and the town was already on that.

My most enduring Amarillo memory, though, is the sign on the far side showing distance to the next towns, which was always the cue for my mom to start singing 'ding dong daddy from Dumas.'

We lived in the city, but the Texas portrayed in Last Picture Show is very familiar to me.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:56 AM
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38: She being Amarillo?


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:56 AM
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40: I was teasing you because you're the one who told me that, you doofus.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 8:58 AM
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ASPHMHB*, probably many time, Texas is already majority minority, about 55%. Go brown to go blue! Or something. In the next few years, we're projected to be majority Latinx.

It's also something like 70% evangelical Christian, which isn't great, but I don't know how many of them vote or govern from the attendant icky social politics (or are eligible to vote at all).

*SP = several people.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 9:15 AM
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+s


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 9:16 AM
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40 - I hadn't heard of "Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas" until the magnificient episode of Nathan For You.

My impression 15 years ago was that Fort Worth was the cooler Dallas but that this has somehow changed. But I've never been to Fort Worth, while going to Dallas maybe 10+ times.


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 9:16 AM
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My impression 15 years ago was that Fort Worth was the cooler Dallas

I think they both get pretty hot during the summer.


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 9:35 AM
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42 [sheepish emoji]


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 9:52 AM
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Ft. Worth has all the best art (cattle money? awl? dunno): the Modern and of course the Kimball kill everything in Dallas' museum district, which iirc are mostly 1st rate buildings with 2nd rate collections....


Posted by: dj lurker | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 12:21 PM
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Dallas is actually very good; comparing it with Fort Worth is slander. All of you will be receiving cease-and-desist letters from my attorney.


Posted by: Trivers | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 2:12 PM
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48 The Carter fortune came from journalism, originally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amon_G._Carter https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fcaaj


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 2:46 PM
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(For those of you who didn't click through, Amon Carter famously carried a sack lunch to meetings in Dallas to avoid spending his money there.)


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 04- 5-18 2:52 PM
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NMM to Cecil Taylor and Isao Takahata.

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Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 04- 6-18 4:16 AM
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