Aw Shucks, Texas isn't important anymore

Painting, The Battle of the Alamo

From reading the article below, it seems that the WaPo might suggest that dreamacttexas change its name.  Being from Texas has lost its clout now that W. left D.C.  I guess I shouldn't tell people that I'm a 7 generation Texas, it could cause me problems.

On the other hand, dreamacttexas just wants to remind everyone that people in Texas are NOT all the same.  Not everyone is a die-hard xenophobic conservative.  Not everyone hates people of color; thinks all Mexicans are stupid; or that all Black men are criminals; or likes Sarah Palin.  Not everyone is anti-intellectual.  

There are actually many of us who keep up with what is going on outside out kingdom.  There are many of us that realize that there is a big world out there that doesn't give a flip about Texas.

The big boys that the WaPo is talking about may be gone.  But there are plenty of us nice guys still around.

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Washington Post

By Bryan Burrough
Death and Texas


Sunday, February 22, 2009; Page B01

In 1845, the second-largest independent country in North America, the Republic of Texas, held its nose, took a deep breath and merged with its upstart eastern neighbor, the United States. (As a Texan myself, I understand the occasional regret that we took y'all's name instead of the other way around.) For the next century, Texas didn't give America much trouble. By and large, it was known for cattle with large horns, men with large hats and its citizenry's penchant for orneriness, braggadocio and shooting one another.

All that began to change in the late 1940s, when America suddenly discovered that an awful lot of Texans had somehow become very, very rich -- and very, very interested in national politics. The East Coast establishment's dismay at this news was captured in a six-part series of front-page stories in this newspaper that began 55 years ago this month. Authored by the Pulitzer Prize-winning White House correspondent Edward T. Folliard, the package promised what an editor's note called a first-ever look at "The Big Dealers, the fabulous money men of Texas who have been pouring part of their millions into American politics. . . . The unique thing about them is public ignorance of their motives, purposes and ideas."

Thus began more than half a century of Texas political power that would see the first Texan, Lyndon B. Johnson, take a seat in the Oval Office; a second, George H.W. Bush, 25 years later; and in short order a third, George W. Bush. Along the way, the Texas "Big Dealers," a class of rightwing oilmen more commonly known as the Big Rich, would thrust upon the nation a series of princelings, beginning with their in-house attorney, John Connally, and leading through men such as Tom DeLay, Dick Armey and Phil Gramm. Never let it be said that The Post doesn't give you plenty of warning... more