Anti-Canadian sentiment in Texas??

Nobody provoked them, they're just showing their ignorance. Heck, there's some of the same sentiment on this forum, it's not hard to find.

 

I'm pretty much speechless reading this! One of my friends is a Canadian driver (out of Toronto) who spent most of his career running US-Canada. After having a truck totalled in a black-ice accident in NY a few years ago, he chose to take a regional job which now keeps him inside the Canadian borders.

In all the years I've known this man, he never once said anything about encountering this type of reaction here in the States. He has, however, said he doesn't miss the increasingly frustrating amount of b/s at customs. He complained about THAT a LOT!

Can anyone give any reasons why there would be this type of sentiment against Canadian drivers running the States? I understand the concerns about Mexican drivers, but Canadians? I'm just lost here.

 

I don't get this kind of crap either!

This just blows my mind

 

Speaking as a Texan I offer you an apology. Most Texans I know have no problem at all with Canucks. Matter of fact most of us wish we were doing well enough to afford to live up there in the summer and miss out on the 107' days here. I imagine you just heard the same mental midgets on the CB that you hear in every state. These guys are losers and are mad at everyone for their own failures. I have heard almost every race and nationality insulted and rarely even turn the radio on any more. Just ignore the jerk offs and enjoy the ride. In my younger days I used to love to get out and meet them face to face. They were just like all bullies. Tough guys when on the radio or in a pack. Bunch of pansies when they had to look you in the eye and repeat their threats.
Now days you will wind up in jail or in court so my days of handing out "knowledge bumps" are behind me unless attacked. Just know that you are the bigger man and let them wallow in their own self pity.

 

I don't hate canucks. Y'all are welcome in my neighborhood!

 

I am from the houston area and I have learned to turn my cb off between baytown and katy and between texas city and conroe. All you hear is trash and filth so much racism and just plain trash.

 

From a different perspective, I used to do a delivery job that took me to many RV parks in the "East Valley" - back then it was a haven for Canadians coming down south to find better weather. The "Canucks" were constantly talking down America, talking to Americans like s*** and were some of the most egotistical, crass and arrogant people I have ever come across. These were all retired folk - travelling around for their retirement. We all wished they woudl GO HOME, as their attitudes made them extremely unlikable and no-one wanted to deal with them. Some of them still come out here, but they have found better places to go. As with any people group, there are the good and the bads, but in the case of those particular people, they were 99% BAD. NOBODY like them, they hung around in their own, elitist social groups, snoots up and dissed the other retirees that were living in the same RV parks. I don't know if this attitude comes from the French, but it really SUCKED then and - well how does that kind of attitude EVER get appealing?
Further, many people equate french speaking Canadians with the French themselves. Even Congress dissed the French as well as many other public entities changing names of french fries to American fries - well I'm sure you heard all about that. Personally, I don't hate entire people groups, but my encounters with these people definitely soured my view of it. There were TOO many of them acting the same way.