Re: CHAT: Yorkshire/Texas (was: dl)

John Cowan:
> Raymond Brown scripsit:
>
> > PS - Yorkshire? The late Prime Minister Harold Wilson is reported to have
> > said on a visit to the US something like: "Yorkshire is to Britain what
> > Texas is to the USA."
>
> Umm, might that not merely refer to its size?  It is the largest of the
> traditional counties, I believe; though Texas is no longer the largest state
> (since the accession of Alaska in 1958), it still thinks of itself as such.
Isn't there also a trait whereby Texans consider themselves first and
foremost Texans, and only secondarily Americans? Yorkshiremen are like
that too. (Also the Cornish.)

I don't know whether Texans also think that everything Texan is best.
I was on holiday in Yorkshire last week, and everywhere were signs for
"Real Original Yorkshire Pizza", and suchlike.

--And.

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