Letters to the Editor
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@spike66
"If Texas could be booted out of the Union, along with it's failed president, America would be much improved."
That Salon readers stoop to such (ungrammatical) lows in discussion forums reflects poorly on the magazine's readership. Yet another reason I'm no longer paying for a premium subscription.
Many people are working very, very, very hard to make Texas a better place and for you to mindlessly air such rhetoric is a slap in the face. Have you ever visited Texas? Are you familiar with its demographics? Its history? Probably not, as you're trucking in stereotypes. That's right, we're all a bunch of cowboy buffoons with oil wells in the backyard. Whatever your state is, I'm sure it's not perfect. I'm not going to argue that it should be booted out of the union.
Bush was never president of Texas. He was governor. Besides, we're getting rid of him--there's an election on, remember? It's not Texas's fault he became president. Bush was not born in Texas. He was born in Connecticut and his family carpetbagged their way here to make easy money. Texas, for Bush, is an affectation and a persona. And not a very good one.
Like it or not, Texas is a state. In the *United States.* A big, influential, fascinating one. And it's not going away.