[elcid1970]

Plenty of patriotism to be discovered in Texas. Try the Alamo. Stay home & save your money.

“Cast down your bucket where you are.”

[basil]

I’ve been to the Alamo many times—and I still get shivers standing inside that hallowed place.

I’ve taken all my kids, and now all my grandkids except the 3 youngest who live in Canada at the present at have visited the Alamo

I’m sure when they are transferred back home, my daughter and her husband will take them.

[Fiji Hill]

Plenty of patriotism to be discovered in Texas. Try the Alamo. Stay home & save your money.

If your patriotism needs regeneration, check out these sites in Texas:

• Buffalo Bayou, east of Houston, site of the San Jacinto Monument and the battleship USS Texas

• The Texas Civil War museum in Fort Worth, which gives a different perspective on the War than you will find in similar museums north of the Potomac

• The Mission Trails in El Paso and San Antonio, with their seventeenth-and eighteenth-century houses of worship

• The Coleto Creek battlefield in Fannin and the historic city of Goliad nearby

• Washington-on-the Brazos, where Texas declared its independence from Mexico

• Palmito Ranch, site of the last battle of the Civil War

[SamAdams76]

Texans should not be so cocky.

Over 40% of them voted for Obama in both 2008 and 2012. They are not as far away as they might thing from becoming another blue state and every year, more ready-made Democrats pour over their borders.

In fact, as a whole, New England is probably just as conservative than Texas. Once you get outside the big cities and the limousine suburbs of Boston and NYC, people tend to be mostly conservative.

[Daffynition]

Texas is fine, especially if you like blazing temperatures several months a year, wont of trees, and real seasons...New England is better. :D