I lived in Houston a couple of years. Texas is mostly a state of mind -- the promotion of "Lone Starry-eyed-ness" as a world view that's uniquely suited to cur

I lived in Houston a couple of years. Texas is mostly a state of mind -- the promotion of "Lone Starry-eyed-ness" as a world view that's uniquely suited to curing whatever ails the human condition, but coupled to a willfulness to disregard whether it actually does. If you want to understand the Texan world view better, read Texas Monthly, a very well-written monthly magazine on Texas affairs that IMO tries hard not to pull punches while keeping them above the belt.