At  a truck stop not far inside the border after leaving Louisiana, I stepped out of the restroom and couldn’t help noticing a display of signs, T-shirts and bumper stickers. The first one I read said:

Alcohol, tobacco and firearms should be a convenience  store, not a government agency.

How delightfully un-PC, I thought, and took some time to chuckle at similar sentiments on display.

After driving deep through the heart of Texas, I came to a town with this sign to greet me on my way in:

God, country and free enterprise???? Where do these people think they live–the United States of America?

I haven’t checked recently, but I remember a couple elections ago that the Texas G.O.P. platform was unbelievably close to ideal…while the G.O.P. nationally played the Washington Generals to the Democrat’s Harlem Globetrotters. The Republican Party as a whole  was all about compromising away the rights of the people and our national sovereignty, selling us out at the first opportunity, all while pretending to be “conservative” (whatever that means). Republicans in the Lone Star State were actually republican

There’s no such thing as “the pendulum” that swings left and right. There’s only a ratcheting noose , gradually strangling our constitutional republic politically, financially, and culturally. So how is it that Texas has withstood the leftward ratchet for so long?

Mostly, it’s because they have clung to their heritage and refused to compromise away their culture.

 

Americans in general not only have much to appreciate, we’ve got many remarkable accomplishments in our history. Certainly there are some skeletons in our closet, but there’s also much to be proud of in our history. But children born here are taught to believe the opposite. If they’re taught any history at all. Ask the average person in the USA what started the American Revolution and they’re likely to tell you it was the Boston Tea Party (you know: a Sarah Palin rally) or Roe vs. Wade. And while the America haters who hijacked our culture can’t point to any nation where the quality of life has been better, they can still find things to criticise.

Of course, Texas today isn’t the texas of 20, 40, or 150 years ago. They’ve suffered an invasion of America-haters from both south of the border and from the high-population cesspools of the Northeast. Pinkos have infiltrated their local and state governments to a degree, but it’s nowhere near as bad as the nation as a whole.

But Texans (for the most part) embrace the highlights of their history and take pride in them. They still believe in their own exceptionalism.

Oblivious to the ridicule levelled at them by the rest of the world, You’ll still see Texans wearing cowboy hats, boots and gaudy belt buckles, brandishing firearms…and even riding horses. Because they’re still free to do it, and they’re not ashamed of their heritage.

I used to make fun of Texans because of how they dress and talk. But should they ever wake up and secede from this pathetic excuse for what was once a free country…the status of my citizenship might just change.