Texas
The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn’t have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in Texas politicians. It’s just Texas is such a unique place to itself that politically, at least so far, they haven’t found anybody to play nationally.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Famous, Flavor, Found, Mind, Texas, Unique
The idea that ‘if you don’t like how things are going, you can just leave’ is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Famous, Idea, Life, Surprise, Texas
Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It’s got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers’ comp. And God help you if you’re poor and mentally ill.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Famous, God, Good, Health, Insurance, Poor, Rich, Texas
Of course, Texas is so huge it really is empty places; people can easily drive an hour and a half to work every day, so even if they’re actually living in the suburbs, it sure feels as if they’re in a remote location.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Drive, Empty, Famous, Hours, Location, People, Places, Remote, Texas
Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the ‘Phil Gramm for President’ campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Campaigns, Candidates, Famous, Politicians, Presidential, Texas, Worst
For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They’re much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Comfortable, Famous, Immigration, Issues, Long-Term, Population, Texas
The high point was that the people are really nice – despite the crazy politics – and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Crazy, Famous, Nice, People, Politics, Texas, Unhappy, Writing
Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it’s hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Famous, Income, Income tax, Population, Source of income, Southern, Taxfree, Texas
At first, I felt bad judging an entire state by one county political official, but then I found out Morrison had also helped screen public school textbooks, a topic which is another chapter in my book. The Alamo is managed by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, a group whose members can claim a relative who was living in Texas during the revolution. The fight over mismanagement of the Alamo has been going on for years.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Book, Daughters, Famous, Revolution, School, Texas, Years
Texas is a country in its own. It’s made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don’t mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that’s really made up of all these encounters, you know?
Author: Gael Garcia BernalTopics: Country, Encounter, Famous, Mean, Mixed up, Territory, Texas, United States
Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I’ve always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.
Author: Kacey MusgravesTopics: Famous, Grew Up, Kid, Looked, Sang, Texas, Traditional
I actually had a nickname as a player myself. When I played high school football in Texas, strong safety, they called me Choo Choo because they said I hit like a train.
Author: Gabriel Luna
Topics: Famous, Football, Hit, Nickname, Player, Texas, Train