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

From:And Rosta <a.rosta@...>
Date:Saturday, April 21, 2001, 21:51
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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