[nascarnation]

After the secessionists told me they were going to deport everybody on Medicare and not let them have the money from selling their homes, I knew that was not place to retire to, LOL

[re_nortex]

There is a small subset of Texas FReeperdom who consider anyone not born in this state inauthentic. I was taken to task about five years ago when I acknowledged my birthplace of Pennsylvania. Despite having been conceived here in the Lone Star state and living here -- by choice -- for over four decades, that's not good enough bona fides. That insular attitude has thankfully waned with the rise of Senator Ted Cruz, a man who's more thoroughly Texan than quite a few fortunate to have been born on this blessed land.