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Originally Posted by fredweena
Texas spawned the Bush Family, but I won't hold it against all of the rest of the residents. Hope y'all make it through okay.
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you do realize that bush 41 and 43 are both YALE alums, bush 41 spent most of his time away from the White House in Kennybunkport, ME, and that just because someone owns land in Texas and spends a bit of time on a ranch here does
not make them a Texan, right?
As for the Don't Mess With Texas campaign, I'd like everyone to know that it is an
INTERNAL ANTI-LITTERING CAMPAIGN
That's it. It's not a fucking "attitude" thing with our state. It's a state-sponsored, indefinitely running campaign to
remind people who live or travel here not to fucking litter.
As for pride in our state, it's one of the most endearing things about this state. Too often these days, people in general lose sight of their history, of their origins and their legends. Texas is a big state of big people. But some of the largest people in our history, including Davy Crockett didn't come from our state yet are still revered by our people. Texas history is a small version of American history, where a bunch of stubborn, strong-willed, and disobedient people fought off a much larger army and nation to eke out an existence that was neither easy nor guaranteed.
The bit about the flag flying at the same height being legal is just an urban legend, as there are NO laws concerning ANY flags being flown, but simply published "suggestions" and guidelines of general use. Additionally, Texas forfeitted any right it had to secede by losing the Civil War, as did any other state. At the point we rejoined the Union, we forfeitted any reasonable means short of a test of arms of seceding from the United States of America.