OT (Modestly): Gotta book for you.
[link|http://www.system.missouri.edu/upress/spring2002/jewett.htm|Texas in the Confederacy]
And I agree with you completely. Texas is a shit hole. What can one say about a place where it's largest claim to fame is "Come see where Kennedy was shot"?
bcnu,
Mikem
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism.
- Mark Twain, "Monarchical and Republican Patriotism"