Bill D - "It's a bit hard to fathom the mindset of some Texans who have made **being Texan** their main hobby."

Yeah, it is hard to fathom, Bill. And I feel exactly the same way about Black people who have made **being Black** their main hobby or gay people who have made **being gay** their main hobby or female activists who have made **being female** their main hobby, plus a number of other common examples of that sort of thing in certain contentiously defensive (or is it offensive?) people who have been disproportionately dominating the public dialogue for a few decades now.

I call it not being able to just get over yourself and your special "problem" and just focus on being part of the human race instead.

Texans, of course, don't even have the excuse that anyone's been persecuting them. ;-) At least not since they defeated Santa Ana.