We'll Take Our Star, You Can Keep The Change

     I've said many times that Texas isn't southern, it isn't western, Texas is TEXAS! Being a Texan is not a fad, it's a FACT! The Texan culture has been molded my a very unique set of circumstances that occurred nowhere else in the world. With Anglo influences, Spanish, Chinese, and God knows how many others, the Texas blend is the Mulligan stew of society. People who came to Texas quickly realized that it was an entirely new deal. While New York and Boston could separate into different groups and form ethnic clans, Texans just didn't have that luxury. Life down here was just too hard! 

     The Alamo reflected this diversity very well. While John Wayne made a good Davy Crockett, where were the Chinese in that film? They were there, too, you know? And all but one Mexican,    Juan Seguin, was portrayed as being in Santa Anna's army. Americans like to say their county is a "melting pot" of different cultures, well Texas is a chili! 

     Texans get along because we HAVE to get along. Our only choice is do that or to be like the Nortés and God knows we don't need that! Example, OTHER states have an opinion about our approach to gay rights. Texans don't have a problem at all. We only have a problem with outsiders trying to tell us what our opinions should be, and how we are SUPPOSED to feel, react, or legislate. Americans try to view Texas through prejudicial glasses that long ago became fogged. I was down at the Domaine in Austin yesterday, and saw two lesbians crossing the street, on the way to a pub. My only thought was one of them was VERY cute. That's TEXAN! I can out court any lesbian! 

     And this black thing. What it that? The Yankees can't run Detroit. We run Austin just fine, and brothers and sisters, there are black people in Austin. I've SEEN them!  The border? Ok, New York look what you've got for borders. More YANKEES! That and some Canadians. Oh, don't get me started. We have four states, a country and an ocean to watch. You got Canadians? We've got Mexicans. WILD Mexicans. We have Cartels. We NEED Cartels to keep all you hop heads in supply! You sent us Ebola, well guess what? We ain't got no more Ebola! You have DOCTORS spreading it all over Central Park, and a deranged nurse riding her bike all over town like, she's got good sense. To quote an old Indian proverb, "White man CRAZY!" 

     And guns! Ever notice how guns are everywhere? New York has gun control. So does California. California gave us Charles Dorner, and New York, the greatest Mafia the world has ever seen. We We just say if guns are everywhere just let everyone have one. Your Homeland security buys over a billion bullets and you say we're ou of step because we include the option of shooting BACK! You give up all your rights, buy oil from your enemies, and allow private banks to print hot checks, call it money and you say WE'RE crazy? You can't control ISIS. We CAUGHT ours! If ISIS went to messing around with the Cartel's trade you would see THEIR heads cut off and mounted on overpasses on the border. Hey, even a stopped watch is right twice a day. 

     Texas is TEXAS, Nortés are Nortés, and never the two shall meet. Why do we want to secede? We want to secede because we've BEEN gone. We'd just like to finalize the divorce and move on. The spirit of Texas will not allow Yankee think to infiltrate and corrupt as it has every where else in the world. Don't think this is real. Ask yourself, why does the Texas flag fly on a different pole? Other state flags fly below the Stars and Stripes. The Lone Star look it in the eye! And that's LONE star! We'll take our star back. You can keep the change!