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Y’all Come See Us, Hear?
After we kick coronavirus’s ass, that is.
You know what I mean. This is offered in the spirit of the country we share being a place you can travel for most of your life and not see it all. That raises the question is it worth seeing? I think so.
One housekeeping matter before I get on a roll. I am going to use the word “Yankee” as we tend to use it down here. It’s good-natured ribbing now, probably less so right after the War of Northern Aggression, and we are aware that it really refers to a subset of folks from the far Northeast.
Non-Texans think those of us who live here have some kind of psychological kink about the size of the place. Maybe so, but all it is not phallocentric folklore. It’s rather stuff that get’s put on us by others.
You gotta start with the geographical fact that Texas is really not just one place. I prefer Central Texas and I understand why LBJ, who could live anywhere after being POTUS, came back to the Pedernales country, even if he never learned to say it right. I don’t know how he got the habit of saying Perd-NAL-ease. He used to be a country school teacher and he had to know better.
