Open post halferect @halferect@lemmy.world · 1mo ago Replying to @SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml Bucee’s sucks shit, no doubt But I’m weary of this liberal notion that red States have nothing to offer the world. What the hell does it mean to “have actual cultural attractions”? Do red States not have culture? Does Louisana not have a culture? Does the Black Belt, throughout the South not have a distinct culture? Does New Mexico, or Texas not have significant Hispanic population that heavily influence their respective cultures? How about South Dakota’s heavy indigenous population? Or Oklahoma? How about Appalachia? Whiteness in America is, admittedly, not unlike the Borg, wherein all cultural artifacts and language of the many white ethic groups which immigrated here, were assimilated. They gave up the lifeways of their homelands in exchange for a kind of security, and thus for their great grandchildren to be run over by a Ford F250 in a Bucee’s parking lot. But that doesn’t mean these places are without rich, deep, and important cultures. The United States is a prisonhouse of nations. Oklahoma, alone, is where we shoved a significant portion of this continents indigenous people. The fact that they’re state government is lorded over by the most unhinged gringos America has to offer doesn’t make it a place worth ignoring or giving up on. Quite the opposite, in fact. Don’t ever group new Mexico and Texas. They may be close in proximity but are lightyears apart
Open post halferect @halferect@lemmy.world · 1mo ago Replying to @BartyDeCanter@piefed.social Instead there are Alsups, which have the best convinence store chimichangas and breakfast burritos available anywhere. The fried burrito with that alsups sauce just hits right
Open post halferect @halferect@lemmy.world · 1mo ago Replying to @SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml I grouped them insofar as we stole them from Mexico ¯_(ツ)_/¯ And new Mexico went to war with Texas and won.