Shhhh. He's on a roll.
One more thing -- albeit fictional -- toward the end of James A. Michener's saga, Texas, he tells the story of a Michigan couple who moved to Houston during the out-migration in the latter half of the 20th Century. Initially apprehensive about the "new world", they eventually came to accept Texas and its values.
Much close to home, in fact across the street is a family hailing from Nashua, NH. Some 15 years ago, the father relocated here because of the strong job market in the tech sector. For years and years, he bucked Texas values and spoke glowingly of his New England home, embracing its liberalism while rejecting our region's Conservatism. Within the past five years, he's undergone a slow metamorphosis. He voted for Ted Cruz in the 2012 senate election and has removed the silly COEXIST bumper sticker from his car. His porch now has a Texas flag proudly flying. And in a few weeks, on Earth Day, I have a notion he'll join me and the next door neighbor when we turn on all the lights, blast the heater/AC and run every engine we can at full throttle as a our protest against Nazism. As the cherry on top, this fellow no longer characterizes Sarah Palin as an "idiot" as he did in 2008.