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But what if the Texans were just "American Australians?"

I mean, what could Australians and Texans possibly have in common? Besides a love for BBQ, a love for beer, a love for game hunting, a love for big hats, a love for big knives, a history of cattle ranching, a reputation for boisterousness- okay yeah, Australians are basically British Texans.

As an Aussie, I'd say we're more like England's Alaska; huge, distant, & inhospitable

@bunlikely There's some truth to this as well, but come out to the Lone Star State in summer and you'll find hospitable isn't exactly the right term for here either...

@txag70 I always thought Kansas was flat and boring, then I drove across west Texas. *shudder*. At least Kansas has corn and sometimes sunflowers growing; west Texas was just perfectly flat and level dirt, stretching from horizon to horizon.

@TuxedoCartman , sounds more like you're talking about the panhandle. west texas has all sorts of mountain ranges. up around lubbuck and amarillo,....all they have is tumble weeds. i'll clue ya in on a neat secret though. there's a fairly good sized canyon up by amarillo.....you'd never know it unless you're looking for it. and get off the main interstate to go to it. welllllllllll worth the side trip. just not in summer. you can fry eggs on the rocks there during summer

@TexasRuss *ding, ding, ding* You guessed correctly! I was talking about Lubbock and Amarillo, which to *me* is west Texas, because it’s near-ish to the border with New Mexico, but I guess locals have a different terminology. Most god forsaken bit of road I’ve had the pleasure of driving.

If I’m ever back that way, I’ll go looking for that canyon, thanks! I live in Las Vegas, and we have something similar: Mt Charleston. It’s like somebody dumped 20 sq. miles of Colorado Rocky Mountains out in the middle of the Mojave Desert— aspen trees, conifers, snow... the whole nine yards!— and nobody knows about it. I’m pretty sure it’s legal for a local to shoot you if you’re caught telling the tourists about it, LOL...

@TuxedoCartman Can confirm, used to live in San Angelo

@bunlikely As an Alaskan, I agree but we have less bugs and more winter-suited murderous animals.

@ImportViking *mindblown* :O

I just thought I might mention that if you feel the need, you could always visit Texas, Queensland.

So that is why Russell Crowe have done so many cowboys movies

@Tarmaque
"Brother Australia doesn't look like any of the Australians I know"

As a rule of thumb, don't expect the SATW characters to resemble real-life people. They're stereotypes and caricatures. :P

@EricTheRedAndWhite I look almost exactly like brother Canada would in real life, except my beard is reddish. I'm even super hairy(you all know the picture I mean ;)) and have a slightly receding hairline.

@EricTheRedAndWhite (Psst! I know that! Apparently it isn't okay for me to make fun of that though. Or is it?)(And as I mentioned to KitsuneRyo, I actually kinda do look like Brother America. Just fatter. That said, I am not typical.)

@EricTheRedAndWhite Except the Danish, the Danish are exactly the same as these comics.

@Just-a-Nugget

Really? Danish girls look just like sister Denmark?

I was born in the wrong country!

Well, in that case Afrikaners are Dutch Texans! :-D

Which prompts me to wonder when Humon is gonna cover the different nations of South Africa...

@Frode Only the Rino Ranchers.

I love his face in the last panel. So hysterical.

History experts feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on the details... but wouldn't Texans just be like a generation or two more removed ALSO of British descent? O_o

@Hinoron Probably... It was, initially a Spanish colony, before Mexico separated, then it was a Mexican territory, with immigrants from USA being invited to settle in the area along the river in the middle of the state. At first Spanish outnumbered non-Spanish, but in about a decase after that non-spaniards got much more numbers. We'll skip all the shady disagreements of the next decade, and yeah, we end up with a weird mix of non-Spanish "caucasians" of just under half of the population. They are non necessarily British, as US census rarely do that, mainly going for "spanish/non-spanish" devide. They could be of any European descent, but probably mainly British (based off the first American immigrants surnames and previous census, that placed English-descent as the highest percentage at roughly a quarter of the population). Third of the state's population is of Spanish roots, one tenth is colored.

@LeeNTien Something I'm not sure if it's common knowledge in the broader states, was that Texas also tried to be it's own nation for awhile but that didn't work out. So they eventually joined up with the States..though they did join up with the Confederacy too.

That's actually the origin behind the name of our Six Flags amusement park: France (they had a presence there until Napoleon decided to pull out completely from America), Spain, Mexico, Texas, the Confederacy and United States. It's literally an acknowledgement of our multinational history.

@LeeNTien

I'm assuming a man from Scotland is not using it with any ill-intent, but FYI, "Coloured" is not considered a socially acceptable term in modern America, since about... the 1970s or so, I think?

Though if you step away from the cultural context and just consider the word literally, I honestly think it's more positive-sounding than the currently popular "black". "Black", like "white" is an exaggeration of the reality of human skin tones, and also positions "whites" and "blacks" as extreme opposites, with not so much as a pixel in common.
"Coloured" to my ear sounds comparable to calling food "flavourful", almost inherently a good thing. ^_^
Rather than anything negative, hearing "coloured" reminds me of this scene from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by9HCGePzRY


...but, that's not how white supremacists have used the word in past decades, and apparently they get to dictate to all of us how language is used, so here we are with a nice word like "coloured" being considered offensive in the 21st century. >_>

@Hinoron : The NAACP hasn't felt the word to be so socially unacceptable as to require them to change their own name yet, despite the PC Police's attempts to "dictate to all of us how language is used".

@Newnetherlander
It's a bit harder to change the name of a widely recognized company or organization, ESPECIALLY one that is largely reliant on donations just to keep the lights on. The United Negro College Fund has the same issue.
They'd like to change it, but if they do, suddenly know one's heard of them before. Their survival as organizations are literally dependent on their renown.

@LeeNTien

Sam Houston was the last true Texan. The rest are traitors and quislings. Especially people who go to Six Flags. It should be Five Flags. The rebel scum don't count.

@Dan

Huh, actually needed to look up quisling. Neat.

But sadly yeah, Texas actually had one of the WORST state constitutions when then joined the Confederacy. It includes such jolly dictates as...

-All black citizens needed to leave Texas or voluntarily become slaves.
-It was illegal to teach a slave literacy.
-It was illegal to free your slaves without the express permission from the governer.

That's just what I can recall off the top of my head.