All progressives move out of the South.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

109. Sorry. Ain't buying it. I'm a native texan and have lived here my entire life.

A few facts:

I have never owned a pair of cowboy boots.

I have never owned a cowboy hat.

I have never owned a horse. I rode a horse for the first time back in 2004. In Idaho.

I have never owned a pickup truck.

I have never dipped snuff or used tobacco products.

I speak proper English.

I do not commit apostrophe abuse.

I refuse to listen to country music because it is whiny, nasal and negative.

We used to have season tickets to the symphony when I was in junior high. The chief conductor was a Frenchman named Andre Previn. I saw many famous musicians, including the cellist depicted in the movie "Hilary and Jackie".

We used to have season tickets to the opera when I was in high school. I saw many famous singers. I also had season tickets to the opera for three years in the 1990s and loved it.

I earned three degrees from Texas universities, including a doctorate in law.

I have studied classical music intensively since I was five years old, on two entirely different instruments. That was quite a few decades ago. I also enjoyed rock and roll in the 60s and 70s.

I saw several famous jazz artists in the 70s and 80s and 90s.

I have no interest in football or any other spectator sports. I don't really have any social outlets because my highest value is education; other peoples' highest value is ignorance and mediocrity and conformity.

I have no interest in megachurches or churches of any kind because they are busy crushing my self esteem. I won't let them do that.

I am a third-generation Democrat. My uncle was a Technocrat-socialist. My dad was a union organizer and refinery pipefitter as well as an attorney. He also voted for Norman Thomas in 1932. My grandmother was an extension service agent and loved Franklin D. Roosevelt because of all the good things he did to lift people out of deep poverty. The state Agricultural Extension Service was one of the agencies that helped. I personally knew Billie Carr, one of the founders of the Harris County Democrats, when I was a kid.

I have never voted for a Republican politician in my entire life.

I live in a county that went two to one for John McCain in 2008. I have a governor and two senators I did not vote for, and a Congresscritter who I did not vote for either. He is the one who apologized to British Petroleum for holding hearings.

Would you like to retract your statement????