His going to prep school in Connecticut, and graduating from Yale and Harvard most definitely worked against him in ‘76 or ‘78 when he ran for office out in West Texas. Kent Hance nailed him with it time and time again while they were campaigning against each other. Since then he’s forgiven Hance, and Hance even switched from the Democrats to the GOP and became friends with him. Bush has done a good job of changing his image since the ‘70s, no denying that, but I know plenty of people who were around in the ‘70s and not impressed with him back then.
I didn’t say people were impressed with him. I said they knew him in college and high school and remember him from his days at those eastern schools.
He was not like the students from the east coast...he was Texan. He stood out as different. I misspoke in saying he wore boots and bomber jacket in Yale MBA classes...that was Harvard MBA classes when he wore boots and bombers. Yale was undergrad only.
Everyone evolves over the years. He only became more entrenched in his Texas persona. W does not hold grudges and it is irrelevant that he and Kent Hance are friendly. It was a lie then that W was East Coast and it is a lie now. Is it a lie that has wide acceptance among people who swallowed the lie? Yes, you give evidence of that yourself.
It is incorrect to say that George W Bush was raised primarily on the East Coast. He was a baby when moved to Odessa, and grew up in Midland. As soon as he finished his secondary and university schools back East (because that was family tradition) he returned to Texas and lived his entire life here. Houston is in Texas. Dallas is in Texas. Midland and Odessa are in Texas. Crawford is in Texas.
Joining the Texas Guard, running for a congressional seat from West Texas, running a West Texas based oil company, owning and managing the Texas Rangers, running for TX governor and serving there, buying a ranch in Texas, buying a house in Texas, having your Presidential Library in Texas, makes you a Texan.
It is weird to be having to make these obvious points, but so be it.