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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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.