When you're from Texas like me, people that you meet ask you questions like?" "Do you have horses?" "Bet you got a bunch of guns, eh?" Have you ever looked at a map of the world. As soon as anyone anywhere in the world looks at it they know what it is. It's Texas. Pick any kid off the street in Japan and draw him a picture of Texas in the dirt and he'll know what it is. What happens if I show you a picture of any other state? Did you ever hear anyone in a bar go, "Wow... so you're from Iowa? Know why? Because there's no place like Texas. Texas is the Alamo. Texas is breathtaking mountains. Texas is the unparalleled beauty of bluebonnet fields in the Texas Hill Country. Texas is the beautiful, warm beaches of the Gulf Coast of South Texas. Texas is the shiny skyscrapers in Houston and Dallas. Texas is huge herds of cattle and miles of crops. Texas is skies blackened with doves, and fields full of deer. Texas is ocean beaches, deserts, lakes and rivers, mountains and prairies, and modern cities. If it isn't in Texas, you probably don't need it. No one does anything bigger or better than it's done in Texas. By federal law, Texas is the only state in the U.S. that can fly its flag at the same height as the US flag. Think about that for a second. You fly the Stars and Stripes at 20 feet in any State, your flag whatever it is, goes at 17 feet, but the Lone Star flies at the same height - 20 feet. Do you know why? Because it is the only state that was a republic before it became a state. Our capitol is the only one in the country that is taller than the capitol building in Washington, D.C. and we can divide our state into five states at any time if we wanted to!! Just part of the deal when we came on. That's the best part right there. Always remember, there are two kinds of people in this world - people who are from Texas... and people who wish they were. Which one are you?
>>>>>>>Displaced Texan>>>>>>
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