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Nightmare" Published in the Houston Chronicle, 8/8/2004. See Article RE: Your Article in Houston Chronicle 8/8/04 I read your article on living in California and saw that you are inviting responses. While I'm not too disturbed by your liberal writing I would like to point out a couple of things that I believe a true Texas would advise his California associates. 1 - While they [and you] may like our president's actions on some things you might want to reflect on the fact that he avenged the death of 3,000 innocent people with a terrible swift sword (Bruce Catton phrase). 2 - He has finally gotten Bill Clinton's recession under control and the economy is again growing. You should also have pointed out that Bill Clinton inherited president Bush's, the first, economic recovery and was fortunate enough to have a Republican Congress for 6 of very long 8 years to keep things straight. 3 - You might also have pointed out that the president has deposed a brutal dictator (dictator, same as king, sorta like what you want Clinton to be) and a nation is free, probably for the first time ever. Sure, we'vet got problems and always will, but we seem to have less than we did. I hope you are enjoying California and you and your liberal friends are enjoying Ronald Reagan's sunsets. Byman W. RE: Guilty of... Try the People's Republic of Oregon (or Washington). Tell them you're from California. Ed RE: Guilty of Being Born a Texan I read you column, Guilty of being born a Texan, in the Houston Chronicle. Loved it! I am originally from Sonoma, Calif and my younger brother still resides there. It sounds like you met him! :-) He gives me the same treatment even though I have only lived in Texas for the past 18 years. I have not been able to find your article online anywhere. Can you possibly send me a web link or an electronic copy of the article? I'd love to pass it along to a couple of my Calif. buddies. Thanks. -- Bob M. RE: Guilty of Being Born a Texan Dear Hank Hill (just kidding) I especially liked this point that you made It's funny how prejudice keeps otherwise "open-minded" people from recognizing one of their own. It is a typical "limousine liberal" mindset that favors well-to-do members of the Democratic Party from the two coasts at the expense of the non-union working class in the nation's midsection. The thinking goes: "If you come from the heartland or the South, you are too backward and too ignorant to understand what's best for the country." Let me just say that Democrats do not hold the monopoly on that mindset. You also don't have to be from those locales. You can be descended from people who lived there and get branded a "hick". Its amazing because if you look in anyone's past, their families are "from the land". Keep up the good work. Claudia (this is an old co-worker of mine...Hi Claudia!) P.S. We have some tomatoes with your name on them! RE: Your Article in the Chronicle Mr. Mitchell; your headline for the column: California Nightmare; Guilty of being born a Texan; is the reverse for me; I'm a native Californian from Carmel Valley and I've been in Texas now for 25 yrs. I have found this an interesting sojourn; Texans are so unlike people from any other State in this Union; to them and for them, everything is bigger and better and brighter in Texas. On some things, I must agree; however, there is still a backwardness in the laws or law scoffing by elected officials that does amaze me! And, I'm getting a little tired of being called "A dam Yankee" still to this day. However, in small towns I have found the friendliness and assistance not to be beaten anywhere except in certain Southern states; California, unfortunately, with the reputation of being the Golden State, has allured entirely too many people to its area, and therefore, has created an unfriendliness as a matter of protection. Your column has created a very vociferous disagreement in my household as he is a native Texan. But I certainly enjoyed reading it .. have fun Sue F. |