[DallasMike]

Although I am 100% supportive of our president, his curt dismissal of his New England roots are disengenuous and kind of insulting to those from Connecticut to Maine who support him as well. This distancing must be more media manipulation by Karl Rove.

I don't think that Karl Rove has anything to do with it. Bush identifies with Texas much more than he identifies with Connecticutt or Maine. Like it or not, he really thinks and acts like a Texan.

[giotto]

As a native Texan who spent four decades in Texas, I absolutely agree that Bush behaves, talks, moves, dresses and thinks like a Texan. But not just any old Texan--he's a country Texan, a rancher or farmer Texan, someone who has actually spent time working on his land. He has the quick, efficient movements of a man who has work to do and has no time for idle chatter.