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EarthNSky wrote:
> I think that sentiment is normal.  I remember when Jimmy Carter ran for 
> President.  Half the state wanted to hide.  I think Arkansas felt the 
> same way about Clinton.  I KNOW a lot of Texans don't want to claim Bush.
>   
To some extent Bush makes a deal of being Texan but I don't remember 
Carter or Clinton making a big deal of their locations (I do remember 
both making big of their personal background/upbringing) and flashing 
their regional idiosyncrasies.  Even Bush hasn't done a whole lot of it, 
or at any rate I haven't seen much of it.  I do remember him making some 
comment about Maine in the summer when he was running, which netted him 
a quickly-publicized laundry list of his OUI arrests and various other 
offenses in the state.  And I have heard a bit of Texas blather but 
nothing to hold a candle to the Palin splash.

Thinking of Bush and Texans, it may be that since I was indexing several 
textbooks for a Texan publisher at the time and therefore privy to the 
disgust of the regional ideas about Bush and education that I turned off 
to anything else I heard, too.  I do remember Molly Ivins (sp?) writing 
some pretty strong stuff but not as it related to Bush/Texas, she simply 
squashed him and his ideas.  What a loss not to have her anymore.  And I 
remember that someone whose name I once knew, a Texas legislator, loudly 
proclaiming that he hoped Bush would be elected president so Texas could 
get back to business as usual! 

But anyhow it just seems 'off' and ludicrous to me to make big of the 
ordinary, and embarrassingly stupid to do it on a national scale.  I 
suppose she (and "they" who guide her) are supposing that no one knows 
the difference.

Should be good for the political cartoonists, at any rate.

Susan Jane, cooking down and canning applesauce to put a bit of heat in 
the house---going to have to make a fire one of these days, but have put 
it off yet today.