Being a Longhorn, I will refrain from saying too many good things about the Aggies. But I will say this: It takes a LOT of doing to kill their pride in being an Aggie.
I’m from Texas, but I have lived in four other states. Nowhere else have I observed race relations to be any better. Where I lived in Texas, races ‘got along’ well and it was never a big thing. Most other places I’ve lived, like Georgia, the lines of division were FAR sharper.
I also hate to say it, but... the DEI forces in Austin, from what I hear, are even more entrenched. If they can infect A&M, they can screw up anyone.
Have a family member worked for the Great State of Texas, from west Texas he is a great guy. For his last couple of years of work he was sent to Austin to help with budgets and do research in his field for the Texas Congress. Not 6 months after arriving in Austin his views not only changed but became entrenched.
Always telling to me that we Horns and the Aggies pick at each other, but when the bonfire tragedy happened, the first people on scene from another school and offering support were the student leaders from UT. Likewise, my experience is that Aggies and Horns in the military away from Texas support and brag on each other.
Colone, USAF JAGCR (Ret)