What Makes Texas Texas

[Sanguine]

People in this rapidly changing state believe their way of life is under attack, and they are making a kind of last stand by simply being Texan.

HOUSTON — Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaign sent me an email one morning, showing the governor aiming a pump-action shotgun in my direction. This was a view of an elected official I had never seen — the get-your-hands-up view. If I contributed $25 to his campaign, I would be entered in a contest to win a shotgun. The subject line of the email read: “Shotgun!” It was a typical morning in Texas.

The prize was special, though. It was not a rare antique. It was, the email noted three times, a Texas-made shotgun.

Those are some of the most potent words in the state’s vocabulary: Texas-made. In a cupboard in our home here, we had a bottle of 1835, a bourbon bottled in Texas and named for the year of the first battle for Texas independence. My crunchy peanut butter is made with Texas-grown peanuts. My salsa of choice is Native Texan (“Born in Texas, Never Leavin’ Texas”). I am not sure where our minivan was made, but as I idle at red lights I know the heritage of the Toyota Tundra in front of me. The stickers on the pickup trucks, built in San Antonio, declare: “Born in Texas, Built by Texans.”...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/us/what-makes-texas-texas.html

OK, it is the NYT.

I'd love to hear what you non-Texans have to say, too.  Or, "potential Texans".

[Ghost Bear]

OK, it is the NYT.

I'd love to hear what you non-Texans have to say, too.  Or, "potential Texans".

My salsa of choice is Pace Picante (Hot).  Their processing plant used to be on I-35, we would drive by it on our way into San Antonio. The smell was w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-l.

As I'm typing this, I'm listening to KOKE-FM (Austin) playing "She's Like Texas" by the Josh Abbott Band.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Me2H-L7R8


So yeah, Texans love their state, and love things that come from their state.  Before I moved here I didn't really understand that... but now I think I do, after living here 26+ years.