Quote Originally Posted by traxx View Post
Yeah, that certainly touches on what I'm getting at. They say Oklahoma's Own Carrie Underwood but we already know that. They're preaching to the choir. Tell people outside the state that she's ours and we claim her. They may not know where she's from. It's like with their tourism commercials and energy commercials you talked about, that they're trying to convince us Oklahomans as much or more than people outside the state.

Also, Oklahoma will claim a famous person as our own if they stopped and took a leak in Oklahoma. Oklahoma tries to claim Brad Pitt even though he spent very little of any of his life here.

As far as Oklahoma shaped things, it's kind of an off shoot of what they do in Texas. In Texas, everything is either shaped like the state or has a lone star on it or both. Texans are super proud of their state. I've never seen anything like it. It goes way beyond state pride with them. And even transplants fall into it. A girl I know from Oklahoma moved to Texas after high school and she now calls herself a Texan and has that same Texas pride as if she had lived there her whole life.
Eh I think it's OK that we claim Brad Pitt. I mean, Angelina Jolie thought enough of him being born here to tattoo the coordinates of Shawnee on her arm... and anything worthy of being tattooed on Angelina Jolie's arm deserves some .