“Perhaps it’s because they were still acting like Californians, rather than Texans.”
That’s a load of crap and you know it! These are people who were California transplants themselves. They are as nice and outgoing as you could imagine and they are churchgoers to boot. They worked to help to get their next door neighbor elected to the school board and as soon as the election was over the neighbors would nearly not speak. Face it, most Texas is a basackwards place where this nonsense about “being Texan” is pervasive. Perhaps in the major cities, which have been invaded by Liberals it isn’t, but in “country Texas” the cow$hit is deep.