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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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.