What is so great about Texas?

What do you think is so great about Texas?

• For me, I'd have to say the following: the people; sure, there are good and bad apples everywhere, but Texans from I've seen are some of the friendliest, most charitable people anywhere. Among other things: Alamo, Riverwalk, El Mercado, State Capitol, Sixth Street in Austin, Town Lake, Austin, San Antonio, Fort Worth, Stockyards, Mesquite Rodeo, AmeriQuest Field, Texas Rangers baseball, Houston Astros baseball, Galveston, The Strand, Galveston Beach, corn nuggets, Texas-sized steaks, wildflowers, diverse landscapes (hills, desert, pine woods, plains, beaches, etc.,) wide open spaces, the state seal, the state flag... If there are any other ones you want to add, please go ahead. And by the way, I'm not from Texas, I'm from Kentucky, but I'm saving up so I can get down there as fast as freakin' possible. (I'll have my Bachelor's degree in two years, then I can move down there.) Sure, I could move to California, Alaska, Michigan, Florida, Carolinas, Colorado, etc., but I like TX!

• Answer:

  Texas is one of the largest wastes of resources in the world. From the obvious (oil, water) to the not-so-obvious (people, potential). It's a state rife with despotism, racism, and anti-social behaviours that are viewd by the power-elite as virtues. Perhaps the best way to explain the idiocy and hypocrisy is in the modern-day slogan "Don't Mess With Texas." Too bad they didn't have that slogan back when Polk was president. They were a bunch of rich, diletante land-owners who knew how to use racism to inflame the Americvan politicians (it goes back a long way). We'd be saying, "¡No Interfiera Con Tejas!" Most of the Texas chauvanists (especially two very prominent ones) deserve the label "All hat, no cattle."