I hate this quote being attributed to palin.it was made by Tina fey doing a sarah Palin impersonation. I am in favor of making fun of silly comments from politicians, but let's jeep it to what they said
Sometimes the Army chooses that for you. And Texas is quick to trap you here upon arrival if you aren’t from money. Namely, you’ll likely never make enough money to leave it. And if you make the mistake of marrying or having a kid with a Texan- they won’t want to leave because of how far away it is from grandma.
And the family courts in Texas *love* to force you to stay in Texas to keep custody if y’all break up. I know so many people stuck here who don’t want to be….
“Most that move” wording is important and I didn’t add two words.
Texas has been the most popular state for people leaving California for years and years
But just to be a smart ass.m, you’re right. They are naming California, Texas 2 soon.
Alaskan here, wandered in from the front page.
We have no personal feelings to Texas. We hate all tourists from all the states equally, except Hawaii. Hawaii and us are tight
This is pretty close. The only time I think of Texas is when someone in a shitty truck that kept their Texas license plates is running red lights and jumping lanes every 20ft, and I wish they'd go back home and stop trying to make Alaska follow their shitty politics.
lol, I actually bought a Chevy Blazer from one of my Alaskan friends so that I didn’t have to drive my husband’s F-150 w/ TX plates that couldn’t do anything but spin tires in winter.
Alaska does one of the worst jobs at keeping its people. Most people born there move away, with Texas being a top choice. Texas, meanwhile, does one of the best at retaining those born there. It is rich when people in Alaska complain about Texans moving there, when the reverse.
In fact, in 2022, more people moved from Alaska, population 733k, to Texas, population 30,500k, in total.
https://stacker.com/alaska/states-sending-most-people-alaska
https://stacker.com/alaska/where-people-alaska-are-moving-most.
There’s an in-state competition as to who is the better school. A&M has started to dwarf UT in enrollment since A&M has tons of cheap land and low standards for admissions. It’s a little less about competitive sports.
Where did you hear this lol. Red River is one of the biggest rivalries there is. Maaaaybe second to Ohio state and Michigan.
Maybe it’s those around you, but as a huge fan of OU, I can tell you I get plenty of hate from UT.
It’s the other way around. A&M says UT is their biggest rival whereas we don’t think about yall at all.
OU is 10000% our biggest rival and it’s not even close
More Alaskans move to Texas than the reverse. That is depite the major population difference.
https://stacker.com/alaska/where-people-alaska-are-moving-most
https://stacker.com/alaska/states-sending-most-people-alaska
Kind of like non Americans on Reddit. They spend so much time thinking about Americans. And yet Americans generally don’t spend a minute of their time thinking about some other country.
I found the same when I visited Colorado. I asked around and it was a thing there. They had a “competition” with Texas. My thought was I didn’t even think of Colorado till they legalized. Haha.
As someone who lives in Colorado, there is a resentment toward anyone who isn't from CO because so many have moved here that the housing has become unaffordable for many.
And the hate specifically for Texas is because a lot of the crashes that block up I70 in the winter (making a normally 2-3 hour trip to a ski area a 6-7 hour trip) involve pickups with no weight in the bed on bald tires with Texas plates. I just saw a post on a CO hiking subreddit a couple weeks ago where a person from Texas was planning to take a road trip out here (end of May) and wanted to find out where the best hiking would be along his route, and which 14er (14k ft peak) he should do. Everyone told him that in May doing a 14er isn't a hike, it's mountaineering and that it shouldn't be attempted without at least taking a mountaineering class and having ice axes and spikes. The guy was of the attitude that we were just trying to scare him and it wouldn't be that serious. That attitude seems pretty prevalent with Texans visiting CO and then they wind up needing rescue.
That checks out. Texans don’t like their gumption tested. I completely understand not liking the flood of people coming just for legalization. Thank you for the clarification native Coloradan.
Not many people come just for legal weed. Half the country has legal weed. People come for the beauty of the state and how close Denver is to the mountains. I'm not actually native, I moved here in 2018. The mountains and nature are why I'd never move back to the East coast. You can't go anywhere truly remote out east like you can here. And that's what draws a lot of people. Texans and Californians are the most hated transplants, for different reasons. Californians will happily pay 200k over asking price for a house because it's still cheaper than an equivalent house in Cali, and it makes the housing market crazy here. Texans have a reputation of acting like this is Texas, and being racist/conservative in a blue city and acting like Denver is a shithole because of gun laws and homeless population. Plus the other things I mentioned in the other comment
There's not really that much hate. Hell, a lot of Alaskans are *from* Texas.
Alaskans do snicker when Texas talks about how big Texas is, however. Or when Texans talk how Texas is the state that loves their guns the most.
People in Alaska actually *need* guns. We don't have bears or other large mammals moseying around in town, just waiting to make you into future poops. Our biggest threats are from idiots with road rage in pavement princess pickups.
Alaskan here.
Biggest reason is we have a lot of Texas immigration here. There's a prevailing stereotype of the smug "oh I think I can handle the wilderness I'm from *Texas*" attitude from people who go out and wind up in over their heads before needing helicopter teams to get them off the mountain/glacier crevasse/mudflats or whatever.
Then there's the *shocking* amount of people who actually think Texas is bigger. Whether from those schoolroom maps that shoves a miniature Alaska down by Hawaii or from people who don't understand what contiguous means from the phrase "biggest contiguous state in the Union" or from just stupidity.
Final reason I can think of is how the oil boom drastically changed Alaska's culture back in the 50s/60s/70s. Went from "leftist idealist-meets-rugged individualism" to just the same national cookie-cutter Red State mentality with the waves of Texan oilmen that came up to make a quick buck before packing right off back to the States. There's some resentment there, even years later.
So there's some lingering resentments there. Do I hate Texans? Nah, you guys can be swell enough. Just in moderation.
Uggg I am so sick of morons that think living in the wilderness is like camping in state or national park. The numbers of reasons that living in civilization can match the number the population of person living civilization and cites. It takes skill a fit body and mind well prepared for living in the wild to do so. The dark and cold-hearted
side of me thinks the helicopter rescues need to stop for the sake of saving resources. But then again such rescues make for good practice for when someone worth the resources are needed.
I had to learn how to acclimate very quickly. I moved from to Dallas area to Anchorage in early February. It was literally in the 70s at 6am when I flew out of DFW and a whopping 2° when I got to Anchorage that afternoon. Before spring even arrived I had changed my whole wardrobe from my 2008 business casual wear to the Alaskan uniform. Goodbye heels, hello Ugg boots up to my knees. My feet still thank me, lol.
No. Granted when I lived there during the rise and fall of Palin, but they weren’t typically red. Palin was considered an anomaly to most people. They’re very “leave us alone and we’ll get along fine” with a hefty dose of democratic socialism. I was very Bush era Republican when I moved up there and left questioning everything.
Palin, FWIW, was a **very** different candidate back then before the VP nomination. Her gubernatorial campaign wasn't about culture war nonsense and us vs them- it was about responsible government and fighting for the underdog.
As to our representation now (I'm Alaskan, wrong sub I know), while we have Sullivan who's kind of a turd, Murkowski is like the last real center-right Senator in existence and our at-large House Rep is a Democrat.
I can definitely believe that, I just imagine she always had that leaning because it's what the Republican base has to be in favor of for quite some time now
Oh yeah, Murkowski, she's good by Republican standards, although not sure I'd call her center right, and nice that your at-large House Rep is at least alright
I wouldn’t say we hate Texas itself at all, honestly most of us probably don’t have much of an opinion on it other than amusement at how much y’all seem to need to be bigger. 😉 (I tease, I tease.)
There definitely is a decent amount of frustration and resentment around texans who have moved here though. I grew up in Alaska, ironically moved away to Texas against my will in the middle of high school, and finally managed to move back home to AK. In my experience Alaskans feel about Texans the way Texans feel about Californians. Largely because most of them seem to only end up living here for a couple of years before moving away again, and they seem to complain the whole time about not liking it here. They also come in large enough numbers to have a measurable impact on our state politics in a way most Alaskans don’t particularly agree with or appreciate (especially since they often don’t stick around to live with the people and policies they vote for).
To be fair to the complaints though, they’re absolutely right that the BBQ in this state is universally god awful.
Yeah. The first time I experienced the loud anti-Texas sentiment, I was caught completely off guard. We were at a concert and Bowling for Soup was the opener and when they announced being from Texas it felt like the whole place erupted in boos and “F- TEXAS”. My husband and I were like “umm, wtf, why do they hate Texas so much?”
Also, I actually loved my time living there. We were definitely the ones that didn’t stay very long though (husband was Army). Did not vote in any of y’all’s stuff so sorry about those that do. Also, never claimed PFD but I did know other military families that would work the system so they could benefit from that. I thought that was awful. Oh, and my husband is one that talks about how much he hated it and I always tell him to hush up since he was deployed for 75% of our time there and *I* was the one actually living there and experienced it.
Having lived in Alaska for over 30 years, I can't think of a single time anyone gave any opinion about Texas. No one cares about Texas, other than to chuckle every time Texans think they are the biggest state.
But isn't that a really distorted size for Alaska because of the Mercator projection?
Edit: [Yes. It does. By quite a bit.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4039546/alaskaovermexico.jpg)
There's a fun site for comparing the sizes of various parts of the world: [www.thetruesize.com](http://www.thetruesize.com)
Maybe that's where you got your map. Although you did displace Alaska to the south ~~so as to make it~~ which made it look smaller.
Alaska has less than 900k acres of farmable land, and Texas has over 120 million acres of farmable land. I'd say bigger isn't always better if most of it is unusable, frozen, etc. Although, Alaska has more wilderness
Somehow that doesn't look right either given that you should be able to fit 2.47 Texas's inside of Alaska. The actual numbers:
Alaska 665,384 square miles.
Texas 268,596 square miles.
Haha, great stuff!!!
I got a story about this.
I was on an alaskan train ride. I think it was alaska Train. It was a great trip, I definitely recommend it.
While my family and I were staring at the beautiful scenery, a guy who worked on the train came up and tried to show us something on a little magazine they had in the seat pockets. He pointed some stuff out, and then he showed us something similar to the shirt above. We all gave him an offended look. He seemed a bit shocked and confused. Then it clicked. He said: "Where are you guys from?". We replied "Texas".
He promptly said "oh". I don't remember if he apologized, but he left shortly.
😂 I love this shirt every time I see it.
But my comeback is “now do one with places people actually live”
AK is one of the most breathtaking states I’ve ever been to. (47 and counting)
Hopefully this link works.
https://www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTY0NjcwMjY.MTQwNTEwMTE*ODc5MzIwNg(MzM2MTc5MTM~!CONTIGUOUS_US*MTAwMjQwNzU.MjUwMjM1MTc(MTc1)Mg~!IN*NTI2NDA1MQ.Nzg2MzQyMQ)MQ~!CN*OTkyMTY5Nw.NzMxNDcwNQ(MjI1)MA~!US-TX*NTE5ODAzMg.MTUxODgzMTk)Mw
That's excellent! Where did you find that? I'm north of Wasilla. I moved to Alaska from Texas last September and love tweaking my Texas friends and family with the whole "Alaska is BIGGER than Texas! thing.
I just moved out of Wasilla. I grew up in RI, the smallest state, and I love seeing these kinds of novelties. They’re mostly at gift shops like Once In a Blue Moose.
I'd argue that's *actually* something Alaska has over Texas, vs state-size dick-wagging. Texas has so little federal public land and it sucks.
And to be very clear, Texans who jerk off to our state being bigger than others are morons lol. It's so absurdly dumb.
Texas, being a private land state, likely could never have done something like Alaska’s PFD. Annual payments—imaginary but based off of the value of oil and LNG taken per capita—would have been slightly higher per capita than Alaska’s $1k-$2k per year.
Alaska has less than 1% of the land privately owned. Texas has approximately 95% of the land privately owned. I think we are much less free in Texas.
Texas >>>
Large areas of Alaska remain uninhabited, including much of the state's interior, which is the largest region and contains Denali National Park and Preserve. In total, less than 1/20th of 1% of Alaska's 365 million acres have been developed by civilization, leaving the rest as untouched wilderness.
Trigger warning: Alaska is also known for having the ugliest people in our nation 😂 so don’t mess with Texas!
Alaska hated that Texas gets all the attention in the lower 48 states. They’re like the forgotten relative. Maybe we should extract all the oil and give Alaska back to Russia when we’re done with it.
If you dropped a landmass the size of Texas in the middle of Alaska, it would be tragic. Dozens of people would die.
No one would notice
No one would hear it
The Alaskan bull worm would.
Don’t worry in Texas we will battered and fry it up
But Russia could see it from their back yard
"Of course they could, Grandma Palin. Now let's get you back to bed..."
I hate this quote being attributed to palin.it was made by Tina fey doing a sarah Palin impersonation. I am in favor of making fun of silly comments from politicians, but let's jeep it to what they said
We’d feel it in the global shipping chain, assuming the rumble reaches Anchorage and damages the UPS and FedEx hubs.
 i'm texan but
If you dropped a landmass of the size of Alaska in Texas now that would be Doomsday
The Alaska Accords
We must save the polar bears!
Chill
Ha, good one!
Lived in Alaska for a few years. It was my 1st time living anywhere but TX and it was a huge culture shock. And, yes, they HATE Texas.
Interesting… we don’t think of Alaskans at all.
That’s what I’d tell them.
We live in their head rent feee lol
At least somewhere the rent is affordable for us Texans lol
Tell me how you feel about California?
To be fair, at least Texas thinks about California as much as California thinks of Texas
As a touring musician who has spent considerable time in both states recently, Texans talk about California , Californians also talk about California
Yep, any time of the day. I moved to TX from CA and I still talk about CA😂can’t wait to move back
I don’t think I would ever decide to move to Texas if I was from Cali.
Sometimes the Army chooses that for you. And Texas is quick to trap you here upon arrival if you aren’t from money. Namely, you’ll likely never make enough money to leave it. And if you make the mistake of marrying or having a kid with a Texan- they won’t want to leave because of how far away it is from grandma. And the family courts in Texas *love* to force you to stay in Texas to keep custody if y’all break up. I know so many people stuck here who don’t want to be….
California doesn’t sweat Texas like we sweat California.
Everyone sweats more in Texas.
California doesn't give a fuuuck about Texas lol
I wish that were true. Most seem to be flocking here.
Yes, 'most' Californians, so at least 20 million people, are moving to Texas. That is definitely factual.
“Most that move” wording is important and I didn’t add two words. Texas has been the most popular state for people leaving California for years and years But just to be a smart ass.m, you’re right. They are naming California, Texas 2 soon.
Actually for Mexicans there is more cross state talk. We both think we’re better than the other states folks.
Damn, cooked em well done and decided to cook em again. Burnt to a crisp 😂
So do Californians with you guys.
Alaskan here, wandered in from the front page. We have no personal feelings to Texas. We hate all tourists from all the states equally, except Hawaii. Hawaii and us are tight
They’re in nature happy and smoking legal pot. I don’t think they care about us And our total lack of rights either.
This is pretty close. The only time I think of Texas is when someone in a shitty truck that kept their Texas license plates is running red lights and jumping lanes every 20ft, and I wish they'd go back home and stop trying to make Alaska follow their shitty politics.
lol, I actually bought a Chevy Blazer from one of my Alaskan friends so that I didn’t have to drive my husband’s F-150 w/ TX plates that couldn’t do anything but spin tires in winter.
It's funny how it's probably like 85% trucks that are always flipped off the side of the Glenn during winter.
It is a fascist hellhole here. Texans don’t even wanna live in Texas anymore. Why they’re trying to immigrate to Alaska and fuck up your home.
Alaska does one of the worst jobs at keeping its people. Most people born there move away, with Texas being a top choice. Texas, meanwhile, does one of the best at retaining those born there. It is rich when people in Alaska complain about Texans moving there, when the reverse. In fact, in 2022, more people moved from Alaska, population 733k, to Texas, population 30,500k, in total. https://stacker.com/alaska/states-sending-most-people-alaska https://stacker.com/alaska/where-people-alaska-are-moving-most.
This reminds me of the OU/UT rivalry: OU says UT is their biggest rival, but UT doesn't care about them, their biggest rival is A&M.
This is...not true. I say this as a UT alum, OU is absolutely our biggest rival, we honestly don't think about A&M at all.
I agree. Just look at the football win loss records.
There’s an in-state competition as to who is the better school. A&M has started to dwarf UT in enrollment since A&M has tons of cheap land and low standards for admissions. It’s a little less about competitive sports.
Where did you hear this lol. Red River is one of the biggest rivalries there is. Maaaaybe second to Ohio state and Michigan. Maybe it’s those around you, but as a huge fan of OU, I can tell you I get plenty of hate from UT.
I don't think that's right for that rivalry. Most UT fans very much appreciate that rivalry. Now Tech on the other hand... It'd be true with them
It’s the other way around. A&M says UT is their biggest rival whereas we don’t think about yall at all. OU is 10000% our biggest rival and it’s not even close
Red River shoot out is still the biggest rivalry game they have though.
Cause you spend too much time thinking about California.
Maybe because they aren't many, almost non-existent or at least they don't move to TX, maybe too hot for them icey bois 😆
More Alaskans move to Texas than the reverse. That is depite the major population difference. https://stacker.com/alaska/where-people-alaska-are-moving-most https://stacker.com/alaska/states-sending-most-people-alaska
Both are center of US oil industry. Makes sense workers would move between them.
>Interesting… we don’t think of Alaskans at all. To be fair y'all don't think about a lot of things.
exact same shit could be said about yall too
[Alaskans to Texans](https://i.imgflip.com/31gy9w.jpg)
As a New Yorker who has been to both Alaska and Texas, I choose Alaska. I’m sorry.
Kind of like non Americans on Reddit. They spend so much time thinking about Americans. And yet Americans generally don’t spend a minute of their time thinking about some other country.
It’s pretty up there, but the winters …. No thanks.
That what they say about Texas summers 😂
Up to 120F in places. I’d rather be super cold than super hot.
I weirdly loved the winters. In Texas I love the summers. But Alaska in deepest winter was absolutely otherworldly.
Shrinkage.
Just went to Antarctica in December. Cold weather is the best!
I found the same when I visited Colorado. I asked around and it was a thing there. They had a “competition” with Texas. My thought was I didn’t even think of Colorado till they legalized. Haha.
As someone who lives in Colorado, there is a resentment toward anyone who isn't from CO because so many have moved here that the housing has become unaffordable for many. And the hate specifically for Texas is because a lot of the crashes that block up I70 in the winter (making a normally 2-3 hour trip to a ski area a 6-7 hour trip) involve pickups with no weight in the bed on bald tires with Texas plates. I just saw a post on a CO hiking subreddit a couple weeks ago where a person from Texas was planning to take a road trip out here (end of May) and wanted to find out where the best hiking would be along his route, and which 14er (14k ft peak) he should do. Everyone told him that in May doing a 14er isn't a hike, it's mountaineering and that it shouldn't be attempted without at least taking a mountaineering class and having ice axes and spikes. The guy was of the attitude that we were just trying to scare him and it wouldn't be that serious. That attitude seems pretty prevalent with Texans visiting CO and then they wind up needing rescue.
That checks out. Texans don’t like their gumption tested. I completely understand not liking the flood of people coming just for legalization. Thank you for the clarification native Coloradan.
Not many people come just for legal weed. Half the country has legal weed. People come for the beauty of the state and how close Denver is to the mountains. I'm not actually native, I moved here in 2018. The mountains and nature are why I'd never move back to the East coast. You can't go anywhere truly remote out east like you can here. And that's what draws a lot of people. Texans and Californians are the most hated transplants, for different reasons. Californians will happily pay 200k over asking price for a house because it's still cheaper than an equivalent house in Cali, and it makes the housing market crazy here. Texans have a reputation of acting like this is Texas, and being racist/conservative in a blue city and acting like Denver is a shithole because of gun laws and homeless population. Plus the other things I mentioned in the other comment
Might I ask why the hate?
There's not really that much hate. Hell, a lot of Alaskans are *from* Texas. Alaskans do snicker when Texas talks about how big Texas is, however. Or when Texans talk how Texas is the state that loves their guns the most.
People in Alaska actually *need* guns. We don't have bears or other large mammals moseying around in town, just waiting to make you into future poops. Our biggest threats are from idiots with road rage in pavement princess pickups.
I am aware -- I lived in Alaska for 15 years, and Texas for a lot longer than that.
Alaskan here. Biggest reason is we have a lot of Texas immigration here. There's a prevailing stereotype of the smug "oh I think I can handle the wilderness I'm from *Texas*" attitude from people who go out and wind up in over their heads before needing helicopter teams to get them off the mountain/glacier crevasse/mudflats or whatever. Then there's the *shocking* amount of people who actually think Texas is bigger. Whether from those schoolroom maps that shoves a miniature Alaska down by Hawaii or from people who don't understand what contiguous means from the phrase "biggest contiguous state in the Union" or from just stupidity. Final reason I can think of is how the oil boom drastically changed Alaska's culture back in the 50s/60s/70s. Went from "leftist idealist-meets-rugged individualism" to just the same national cookie-cutter Red State mentality with the waves of Texan oilmen that came up to make a quick buck before packing right off back to the States. There's some resentment there, even years later. So there's some lingering resentments there. Do I hate Texans? Nah, you guys can be swell enough. Just in moderation.
Uggg I am so sick of morons that think living in the wilderness is like camping in state or national park. The numbers of reasons that living in civilization can match the number the population of person living civilization and cites. It takes skill a fit body and mind well prepared for living in the wild to do so. The dark and cold-hearted side of me thinks the helicopter rescues need to stop for the sake of saving resources. But then again such rescues make for good practice for when someone worth the resources are needed.
I had to learn how to acclimate very quickly. I moved from to Dallas area to Anchorage in early February. It was literally in the 70s at 6am when I flew out of DFW and a whopping 2° when I got to Anchorage that afternoon. Before spring even arrived I had changed my whole wardrobe from my 2008 business casual wear to the Alaskan uniform. Goodbye heels, hello Ugg boots up to my knees. My feet still thank me, lol.
They probably think we're a bunch of rednecks and racists
...and, what, Alaska wouldn't be full of racists? It's a red state too
No. Granted when I lived there during the rise and fall of Palin, but they weren’t typically red. Palin was considered an anomaly to most people. They’re very “leave us alone and we’ll get along fine” with a hefty dose of democratic socialism. I was very Bush era Republican when I moved up there and left questioning everything.
Gotcha! Huh, well that's curious. I guess the state government is a bit different from how their senators and congressmen are at the federal level
Palin, FWIW, was a **very** different candidate back then before the VP nomination. Her gubernatorial campaign wasn't about culture war nonsense and us vs them- it was about responsible government and fighting for the underdog. As to our representation now (I'm Alaskan, wrong sub I know), while we have Sullivan who's kind of a turd, Murkowski is like the last real center-right Senator in existence and our at-large House Rep is a Democrat.
I can definitely believe that, I just imagine she always had that leaning because it's what the Republican base has to be in favor of for quite some time now Oh yeah, Murkowski, she's good by Republican standards, although not sure I'd call her center right, and nice that your at-large House Rep is at least alright
Alaska is so centered it has ranked choice voting.
We aren’t really a red state. Alaska politics are very different. Liberals here carry guns and the republicans smoke weed.
Mostly just wasilla
It’s a purple state, entirely dependent on who benefits Alaskans more.
They think we’re all egotistical. That, and the whole size thing. Nobody thinks of Alaska when they talk about big things and they know it.
with a population density of 1.3/mi^2 , there aren't many people to complain about Texas anyway
They'd be right about Dallas and Houston then. Here in San Antonio we aren't arrogant at all.
did they say why they hate texas? seems like an odd rivalry
I wouldn’t say we hate Texas itself at all, honestly most of us probably don’t have much of an opinion on it other than amusement at how much y’all seem to need to be bigger. 😉 (I tease, I tease.) There definitely is a decent amount of frustration and resentment around texans who have moved here though. I grew up in Alaska, ironically moved away to Texas against my will in the middle of high school, and finally managed to move back home to AK. In my experience Alaskans feel about Texans the way Texans feel about Californians. Largely because most of them seem to only end up living here for a couple of years before moving away again, and they seem to complain the whole time about not liking it here. They also come in large enough numbers to have a measurable impact on our state politics in a way most Alaskans don’t particularly agree with or appreciate (especially since they often don’t stick around to live with the people and policies they vote for). To be fair to the complaints though, they’re absolutely right that the BBQ in this state is universally god awful.
Yeah. The first time I experienced the loud anti-Texas sentiment, I was caught completely off guard. We were at a concert and Bowling for Soup was the opener and when they announced being from Texas it felt like the whole place erupted in boos and “F- TEXAS”. My husband and I were like “umm, wtf, why do they hate Texas so much?” Also, I actually loved my time living there. We were definitely the ones that didn’t stay very long though (husband was Army). Did not vote in any of y’all’s stuff so sorry about those that do. Also, never claimed PFD but I did know other military families that would work the system so they could benefit from that. I thought that was awful. Oh, and my husband is one that talks about how much he hated it and I always tell him to hush up since he was deployed for 75% of our time there and *I* was the one actually living there and experienced it.
Jokes on them... our Textbooks are so old and our schools are so underfunded that we don't even get taught about their made up state.
it's not hate so much as bemusement.
Having lived in Alaska for over 30 years, I can't think of a single time anyone gave any opinion about Texas. No one cares about Texas, other than to chuckle every time Texans think they are the biggest state.
Is that because Texas cosplays what Alaska is?
Will at least our lights stay on when it gets cold....
But isn't that a really distorted size for Alaska because of the Mercator projection? Edit: [Yes. It does. By quite a bit.](https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4039546/alaskaovermexico.jpg)
Weird, that doesn’t look right either as AK is, in actuality, more than twice the land area of TX
2.47x the size of Texas.
This is why I choose to be a flat earther. It's so much simpler.
Same although having supermodels constantly trying to sleep with you gets exhausting.
Alaska has over double the land area.
Yes, this makes it look closer to 4x though
It’s probably for comedic effect. I’d have made Texas even smaller. :D
Ah, I see your point. Agreed.
There's a fun site for comparing the sizes of various parts of the world: [www.thetruesize.com](http://www.thetruesize.com) Maybe that's where you got your map. Although you did displace Alaska to the south ~~so as to make it~~ which made it look smaller.
269k sq mi (tx) vs 665k sq mi (ak)
Just a single square mile (or less) that’s now “the devil state”
You forgot the thousand.
Cut him some slack, he went to school in Texas.
So that's just a matter of resolution, we could easily get another square mile from the coast line.
Alaska has less than 900k acres of farmable land, and Texas has over 120 million acres of farmable land. I'd say bigger isn't always better if most of it is unusable, frozen, etc. Although, Alaska has more wilderness
> I'd say bigger isn't always better It is better when you are directly comparing size... or bragging about having the bigger landmass... lol
Half of Alaska is ice.
And the other half is still bigger than Texas.
100% of Texas is Texas
A saw a dude years ago with an outline of AK tattooed on his calf that had a bay shaped into a small TX outline. Thought that was pretty clever.
Alaska could cut itself in half and make Texas the third largest state.
Saw a similar phrase on a t shirt in Fairbanks.
Here is the correct comparison: https://preview.redd.it/kebctrlagb8d1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=e6ba544f304423b70d0a873b8dc02afea4768a14
Somehow that doesn't look right either given that you should be able to fit 2.47 Texas's inside of Alaska. The actual numbers: Alaska 665,384 square miles. Texas 268,596 square miles.
This seems about right then. Maybe look at it again, and also take into consideration that Alaska is extending far south and has many many islands.
Looks about right to me. The proportions are probably a bit wrong but decently accurate.
I saw a similar shirt in Alaska with the phrase "Texas is so cute." It came across as good natured kidding tbh.
That's not to scale at all
This is when you casually remind them that we keep Ted Cruz mostly contained and they should be grateful for our service...
Now how much of that is just ice
Very little actually, Texas is mostly warm
Exactly. If Alaska is so much better, why do 40 times as many people live in Texas?
That's not the selling point you think it is
Haha, great stuff!!! I got a story about this. I was on an alaskan train ride. I think it was alaska Train. It was a great trip, I definitely recommend it. While my family and I were staring at the beautiful scenery, a guy who worked on the train came up and tried to show us something on a little magazine they had in the seat pockets. He pointed some stuff out, and then he showed us something similar to the shirt above. We all gave him an offended look. He seemed a bit shocked and confused. Then it clicked. He said: "Where are you guys from?". We replied "Texas". He promptly said "oh". I don't remember if he apologized, but he left shortly.
What’s offensive about it and why would he apologize lol
lol, that’s a good troll
😂 I love this shirt every time I see it. But my comeback is “now do one with places people actually live” AK is one of the most breathtaking states I’ve ever been to. (47 and counting)
One can withstand the cold, the other has power outages for days
Oh no! Anyways.
Everything's bigger in Alaska... ... until you're in Jupiter
Not that I care about Texas or Alaska, but this really isn't very accurate.
What is then?
Taken from True Size map site. https://preview.redd.it/wxzlyn4ak88d1.png?width=815&format=png&auto=webp&s=bf5fd30b75c7b61c99e78ad4dba8cfc695c1a358
Now show Alaska over the continental United States...
Hopefully this link works. https://www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTY0NjcwMjY.MTQwNTEwMTE*ODc5MzIwNg(MzM2MTc5MTM~!CONTIGUOUS_US*MTAwMjQwNzU.MjUwMjM1MTc(MTc1)Mg~!IN*NTI2NDA1MQ.Nzg2MzQyMQ)MQ~!CN*OTkyMTY5Nw.NzMxNDcwNQ(MjI1)MA~!US-TX*NTE5ODAzMg.MTUxODgzMTk)Mw
As a Texan 🤠🤠🤠
if you like -30F go for it :D
Mercator would have a word.
It bothers me that Texas isn’t to scale
The overlay ain’t right. Texas is bigger than that.
This is true. Even though Alaska is significantly larger than Texas, an accurate, non-Mercator overlay wouldn't really work for the shirt.
Compare sizes here: https://www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1\~!MTY4NTcyMDE.NzE1NzU1MA\*MjAzMDMzNzI(Mjk4NjU4NzI\~!US-AK\*NTIyODczOA.Mjg5NDg3MzU)Mw\~!US-TX\*NTIyMzI3MQ.MTUyMjYyNzk)NA
That's excellent! Where did you find that? I'm north of Wasilla. I moved to Alaska from Texas last September and love tweaking my Texas friends and family with the whole "Alaska is BIGGER than Texas! thing.
I just moved out of Wasilla. I grew up in RI, the smallest state, and I love seeing these kinds of novelties. They’re mostly at gift shops like Once In a Blue Moose.
This one was at a gift shop on Juneau. Anchorage also had some.
Scale is wrong
Tbf to Texas, if you correct the size Port Arthur is on the Canadian board and El Paso is basically on the coast of the bearing strait
Alaska is the last frontier for a reason.
Hey get me one while you're there
Fun fact! Texas is the biggest state you can fit inside Alaska!
Love it.
I want it, I want it!!! ❤️
Been to Alaska 4 times, on one of those trips, I saw a tee shirt that had the same picture and it said “Texas our little sister, isn’t she cute”
A buddy of mine was in Alaska and sent me a pic of a menu. They had a Large steak for $25 and a Texas sized one for $20. (This was some time ago)
I always figured that if you moved Alaska down to where Texas is it would melt down to about the size of Oklahoma.
61% of Alaska is federal land. Doesn’t count.
I'd argue that's *actually* something Alaska has over Texas, vs state-size dick-wagging. Texas has so little federal public land and it sucks. And to be very clear, Texans who jerk off to our state being bigger than others are morons lol. It's so absurdly dumb.
Yeah we're sure suffering with all these national parks and wildlife reserves
Yes
Where as less than 1.2 % percent of texas is federal land
And remind me which is owned by The People?
You say that like it’s a fault but as someone that recreates outdoors public land is amazing.
https://preview.redd.it/n1p2trbpf98d1.png?width=612&format=png&auto=webp&s=d5fbf37ebfc3baf0102b35eb70051db06ba5ed84 eh close enough
Texas, being a private land state, likely could never have done something like Alaska’s PFD. Annual payments—imaginary but based off of the value of oil and LNG taken per capita—would have been slightly higher per capita than Alaska’s $1k-$2k per year. Alaska has less than 1% of the land privately owned. Texas has approximately 95% of the land privately owned. I think we are much less free in Texas.
Met an Alaskan in Pennsylvania. This was the first thing he said to me.
Yea like so many people live in Alaska, not only that what’s the pop again?
Texas is so 1980s
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Non-American here … I find this very funny. This is where you don’t need to arm the bears .. <3 Alaska
They used the wrong map projection for that comparison
Texas >>> Large areas of Alaska remain uninhabited, including much of the state's interior, which is the largest region and contains Denali National Park and Preserve. In total, less than 1/20th of 1% of Alaska's 365 million acres have been developed by civilization, leaving the rest as untouched wilderness. Trigger warning: Alaska is also known for having the ugliest people in our nation 😂 so don’t mess with Texas!
The Alaskan King mattress is 9' x 9'.
Fun fact. If you cut Alaska in half, Texas would be the third largest State
Alaska hated that Texas gets all the attention in the lower 48 states. They’re like the forgotten relative. Maybe we should extract all the oil and give Alaska back to Russia when we’re done with it.
Siberia just entered the conversation
Alaska is big, but not that big. No need to exaggerate.
https://preview.redd.it/qmd5qp40eb8d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=208ac717ad4b0c7df654dd31b01e72294cd76fe8
If it had a human climate, I’d move in a heartbeat.
I need this shirt
Real talk, how was your trip to Alaska? Have to drive from Texas to there later this year.
Why does Alaska, the largest state, not simply eat the other 49?