No new texans" has become a favorite slogan of Democrats, especially since George W. Bush picked then-Dallasite Dick Cheney as his running mate. The slogan sounds nasty—and it's surely intended that way. Its real message is simply "No Texans." "The contempt for Texas is almost palpable, even worse than the contempt for Arkansas," says John Shelton Reed, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina, who studies southern distinctiveness. When Northerners think of Texas, he says, they think of big hair and "frying people" in the electric chair.
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机译：没有新的德克萨斯人”成为民主党人最喜欢的口号，尤其是自乔治·W·布什（George W. Bush）挑选当时的达拉斯·迪克·切尼（Dallasite Dick Cheney）作为竞选伙伴以来。这个口号听起来很讨厌，而且肯定是这样。它的真实意思是“没有德州人。研究南北特色的北卡罗来纳大学社会学家约翰·谢尔顿·里德说：“对德克萨斯州的蔑视几乎是显而易见的，甚至比对阿肯色州的蔑视还要严重。”当北方人想到德克萨斯州时，他说，他们想到的是大头发和“油炸人”在电椅上。
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