So he was raised by schools on the east coast?
Uh. no.
Moved to Odessa at age eighteen months, a baby. Grew up in Midland attending Midland public elementary and junior high schools. Played little league ball, was a cub scout.
Father was in the oil biz and moved the family to Houston, still in TX, when W was about to enter high school. I don’t know about you, but by the time I was about to enter high school there ain’t nobody on the face of the earth that could’ve changed me from what my family and my neighborhood instilled in me to be.
W proved that out, for although following family tradition to Andover prep and Yale, he returned to Texas, at first living in Houston. Joined the Texas Air National Guard. Moved back to Midland and went into the oil biz himself, later selling the biz and buying into the Texas Rangers, thereupon moving his family to Dallas, which now included a Midland girl, Laura, and their two daughters. While in Midland he ran for Congress from that district, driving all over the forsaken West Texas landscape to campaign, but alas, lost to a Dem named Kent Hance (who used the big myth that W was an Easterner to defeat him and laughs about it to this day).
From his position with the Rangers he ran and won against Ann Richards for governor of TX. He bought a ranch in a very rural area west of Waco which he dearly loves and goes to often. His Presidential Library is at SMU in Dallas where they have primary residence since leaving the WH.
Those who knew him while at Andover and Yale are unanimous and unequivocal that he was different from his classmates and his TEXAN came through every pore. (Unlike Obama, just about everybody knew him and remembers him from those days.) In his Yale MBA classes he wore cowboy boots and a flight jacket. Real Yalie, he was.
I bet you have repeated the fiction that he was East Coast so many times, you now think it’s proven history.
If that is the biography of an Easterner, I’ll eat my cowgirl hat.
GWB did undergraduate work at Yale. He got his MBA at Harvard -- where he was indeed known for wearing boots and a flight jacket on campus.
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.