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Texas is a horrible place to can be without a carlittle more difficult than the national average for hitchhiking. Texans are extremely capitalist can often be individualists, especially the ranchersmeaning they will often see your lack of a vehicle as a personal failure. This means they never need any help However, in addition to having an individualist culture, Texans also tend to be notoriously friendly and never help anybodylaid-back. The attitude towards your carless plight in Texas is a curt "Southern Hospitality"fuck lives, if you're willing to engage your rides regardless of their accents, buddytheir political ideologies, you fucked up"or whatever nonsense may be pasted on their bumpers. Your rides will be mostly with people who are not from <p> Texasis a massive state, and with many of its residents having migrated from Mexicansother states. Thus it is impossible to state anything "typical" of it. Additionally, violent insanity is highly common in Texas, and Texans there are obsessed with violent murders and gristly death penalty justice. They have serial killers on the brain and so even more than in the rest of the U.S.many immigrants from Mexico, they assume from whom you will kill themreceive many rides. However, Texas is The casual kindness of Mexicans can often "too cold to go overbe your salvation, too wet to go under" and so they'll just throw you are hitchin the back of the pickup without a second thought-hiking through TexasI think this is because hitchhiking is common in Mexico. Hooray!

Waits can be long in rural areas, and in some parts of the state (such as West Texas), the distance between towns and the high speed limit can mean very long waits. However, in more populous rural areas, short hop rides are fairly available, and lifts from old ladies and volunteer fire chiefs are not uncommon. The casual kindness of Mexicans is your salvation, they'll just throw you in the back of the pickup without a second thought- I think this is because hitchhiking is common in Mexico.