[Ditter]

I don't have the “inclination” to look for your snarky anti Texas posts. Everybody knows you hate Texas and I have just been wondering why. There has got to be a reason for it. I have seen you say it was because Texans were hitting on California. I have been on FR for a long time and other than the “fruits and nuts” comment occasionally I have not seen that much anti-California here.

[naxetevitan]

As a 6th-generation hard-core Texan, I'll be the first to admit that we sometimes think we're somehow "superior" in a perverted sort of way. If i weren't so hard-core, i would probably get on my own nerves. But just to show people that we can laugh about it, here's something y'all may enjoy. Some guy from Georgia who was doing his dissertation didn't like Texas either -- he claims that Texans are guilty of rampant fraud. Here's an excerpt!

MOST DESPERATE PEOPLE: THE GENESIS OF TEXAS EXCEPTIONALISM (by Michael Kelley)

Preface: The purpose of this study is to advance the knowledge of early Anglo settlement of Texas, to provide a foundation for further inquiry into the individuals who settled Texas in the Mexican era, to add to the body of early Texas history, and to question the validity of Texas exceptionalism. < snip >

In the end, this study demystifies the persona of the early Anglo settler in Texas. The Anglos were not as portrayed in legend, and only by extraordinarily good luck did their revolution succeed. They were arrogant, greedy, and racist, but they were also rugged individuals and risk takers. The Anglo settler experience in Texas was mirrored throughout the west as pioneers settled western lands but Texans successfully constructed their history to portray themselves as different and exceptional.

IOW, we Texans are the only ones who think we're "exceptional." Furthermore, according to this guy, the validity of all those stories we trade amongst ourselves about our early settler ancestors is highly doubtful; and our skewed sense of self-identity is based on an elaborate, bald-faced lie we began constructing in 1821 and have been telling ourselves for the past 190 years.

(Remember The Alamo!:)