is it something in the water in Texas?

[jrtom]

NY Times: Death Sentences in Texas Cases Try Supreme Court's Patience

I mean, seriously: is there something about Texas that gives its elected officials (DeLay, Bush, these judges) their massive arrogance and frank disregard for authority other than their own?

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[red-frog.livejournal.com]

Briefly (I'm tired and I'm packing), yes. Conversation with the Texas man on the street suggests that they're strongly nationalistic towards Texas during that brief period when it was its own country. The US is taken on sufferance.

Not all Texan, not remotely. But I've noticed an attitude about the state that has no parallel anywhere else in the US I've ever been.

[gwyd.livejournal.com]

I rather wish they'd just go ahead and secede.

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

Doesn't seem likely. Why would they? Their partisans control two branches of the US government, and bid fair to take the third if Bush gets as many SC appointments as seem likely.

[gwyd.livejournal.com]

I know. They've been threatening to do it for ages, but they are just dick teases. It's not in their interest. Still everytime a Texan goes on about their proud heritage and their right to secede because they joined by treaty, I want to shout at them to please go.

Texas

[fdmts.livejournal.com]

an attitude about the state that has no parallel anywhere else in the US I've ever been.

I have to differ with you on Texas being the sole home of that snide superiority and separatism. At the very least, New York City and California have comparable pinecones up the collective butt of the man on the street. Ask yourself how many times in the past year we've heard about either of those states being willing to go their own way and leave the unwashed masses of America behind.

Re: Texas

[red-frog.livejournal.com]

Totally different--that's pique. I've lived in both states while being from neither, and neither is nationalistic in the same way. I've never heard a cab driver in either state immediately launch into reciting their state's GNP and former country status.