At least you can count on a Texas cheerleader knowing which side scored...
Posted on 07/13/2009 5:57:16 PM PDT by Lorianne
AMERICA’S recent history has been a relentless tilt to the West—of people, ideas, commerce and even political power. California and Texas, the nation’s two biggest states, are the twin poles of the West, but very different ones. For most of the 20th century the home of Silicon Valley and Hollywood has been the brainier, sexier, trendier of the two: its suburbs and freeways, its fads and foibles, its marvellous miscegenation have spread around the world. Texas, once a part of the Confederacy, has trailed behind: its cliché has been a conservative Christian in cowboy boots, much like a certain recent president. But twins can change places. Is that happening now?
(Excerpt) Read more at economist.com ...
Texas welcomes good people
California runs them off
Texas still lacks California’s great universities and lags in terms of culture.
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What the heck do they think UT is? It’s as good as the CA state schools.
Thanks, but Austin is as much “culture” as this state needs. In fact it may be too much.
UT’s nice. A&M in my opinion trumps it.
If what California has is called culture, they can keep it. Texas has always been superior in the things that really count: moxie, courage, and, yes, morals and integity.
At least you can count on a Texas cheerleader knowing which side scored...
She looks blond, doesn't she...???
| School | Overall score: | Tier | U.S. News rank: | Year founded: |
| Rice University Houston, TX | 80 | 1 | 17 | 1912 |
| University of Texas--Austin Austin, TX | 57 | 1 | 47 | 1883 |
| Texas A&M University--College Station College Station, TX | 48 | 1 | 64 | 1876 |
| Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX | 47 | 1 | 66 | 1911 |
| Baylor University Waco, TX | 45 | 1 | 76 | 1845 |
| Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX | 37 | 1 | 113 | 1873 |
| University of Texas--Dallas Richardson, TX | 27 | 3 | 149 | 1969 |
| Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX | 22 | 3 | 170 | 1923 |
| University of Houston Houston, TX | 15 | 4 | 210 | 1927 |
| University of North Texas Denton, TX | 9 | 4 | 234 | 1890 |
| Texas Woman's University Denton, TX | 9 | 4 | 234 | 1901 |
| University of Texas--Arlington Arlington, TX | 9 | 4 | 234 | 1895 |
| Texas A&M University--Kingsville Kingsville, TX | 5 | 4 | 246 | 1925 |
| Texas A&M University--Commerce Commerce, TX | 1 | 4 | 257 | 1889 |
| University of Texas--El Paso El Paso, TX | 1 | 4 | 257 | 1913 |
Huh? Maybe this author should look for the location of mission control. He could also ask about Texas Instruments, and see if petroleum engineers, geologists, and chemists are thought to be smarter than actors.
I hope Texas can stay a secret with a backwater image because the alternative is a bunch of California dunces moving into Texas and voting to copy all the insanity of California, Massachussetts and New York. That would ruin us.
Texas needs to realize how good they have it and secede now. The alternative is to take the slippery slope into Obamunism.
California could LEGALIZE the 2nd Amendment!
That’s how the liberals operate. They dirty their own nest with their marxist policies and then move to another place and ruin it too!
We don’t want them here!
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