Has Texas being a State been a net negative for the USA?

Brisket.

 

Yes

 

Iirc Jewish immigrants brought the cut to Texas but then immigrants and local ranchers started trying new ways to cook and that's where smoked brisket came from. But yea after smoked brisket, I got nothing.

 

Seeing as it was completely self sufficient economically during the financial collapse in 2008 I think it more than justified itself.

Top 5-10 state, imo.

 

This poster has not visited more than 5-10 states iyam

 

California
Oregon
Washington
Nevada
Arizona
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
New York
DC and/or Virginia

are all better by any objective observer

 

It produced these so nope

 

Sure, if you ignore the fact that oil was spiking to historic highs over that time period

 

Nevada
Arizona
Florida
Georgia

 

You would be wrong.

 

I'm not going to freeze to death here and even our Republican shit heads respond to natural disasters instead of fleeing the state

 

The tacos are dope.

 

Tito’s vodka is great

that’s all I got

 

Yea pretty weak and desperate but also what a cool topic!

 

I’m just messing around people. Every state sucks.

 

I remember alabama giving us slavery that wasnt good

 

Yep

Haven't won a superbowl in like 3 decades

 

Feel like there's some punctuation needed here. Are we saying Alabama is not good because they gave us slavery, or just that the slavery they gave us was of poor quality?

 

Bun-B will always get a like outta me.

 

Have you never left Alabama (or Tennessee or Georgia) for a prolonged period of time? Tex mex and tacos related thereto are 100% worth a fuck

 

Some people forget that Texas is the only state to secede from 2 countries because they wanted to keep slavery.

 

Surprised War Grundle didn't respond to this

 

Texas giving up their top ranked players in like 7 positions to Nick Saban so he could have the highest rated recruiting class all-time is a pretty generous gesture.

 

H-town rap music alone makes it a worthwhile acquisition

 

Texas is p worthless, but it could be a good state if you combined all of the big cities together and threw the rest out of the car window

 

Tex Mex doesn’t come from New Mexico or California. It’s distinct. By including California, you’re proving my point

 

easily the most undeserved ego of all 50 states. like, they legitimately buy into that crap, it's actual indoctrination and an embarrassingly big percentage of the state actually believe it.

meanwhile, the reality is they're not even an upper-half quality state. they're much closer to the bottom than they are the top.

 

Do Miss America titles count?

 

As far as I'm concerned Texas's lone and greatest accomplishment is Dump dragging his nuts all over Powe.

 

Texas only manages to keep taxes low because they've conned the feds into subsidizing a third of their budget every year.

 

I moved to TX and stayed for a little over a year and then couldn't wait to move back to Alabama. FUCKING ALABAMA. Texas was so bad I yearned for the days of Alabama. Let that sink in for a minute.

 

We gave the world one Patrick Mahomes

Instant top state ranking right there

You are welcome

 

Yeah, but to everyone who isn't a Chiefs fan, he is basically Thanos.

 

Also gave the world Jackson Mahomes and Brittany Matthews. Instant trade off

 

Silver lining for most of you is that we only elect people who actively try to kill us, so darwinism will win the day at some point

 

Alabama