Think of Texans as proud yet humbled (Texans humbled? Yes, humbled), as conquerors and conquered, as people plunging gustily forward yet remembering where grandparents are buried. But there are Anglo-Saxon Texans, slave-descended Texans, Spanishand Indian-descended Texans. A historian of Texas here tells how they all coalesce into a kind of separate nationhood while being very much a part of the U.S.A.
The Texas Legislature. It passed a resolution commending the Boston Strangler for his efforts at population control. One of its members, trapped in a barefaced lie, concedes, “You caught me speedin’.” If you start a fight for “reeform,” especially for any bill that would threaten “a healthy bidness climate,” you might wind up in List City.