Rick Perry to Ridin' a horse to School: Texas Myths

What is this Texas mystique, anyway? It's much more than giving an Ann Richard's style "Howdy Y'all" to everyone I greet. It isn't the Hollywood version of All Things Texan, overdone and stuck in the 80's. (A good Texas woman may be flashy, but she isn't out of style. She just has her own interpretations of it.)




I'll toss my hat in the ring and be blogging about the Top 8 Texas stereotypes that just aren't true:

• We don't ride horses to school anymore.
• Not everybody knows how to two step.
• We aren't all god-fearin' Christians.
• We aren't all Conservative Christian Republicans.
• Not everybody voted for Rick Perry and his hair.
• We don't all carry guns.
• Governors aside, we aren't all uneducated hicks.
• We don't all talk like J.R. Ewing.

And I'll touch on the the ones that ARE true:

• Boots look great with a man's suit.
• Nice jeans and boots can take you anywhere.
• Everything tastes better with a little hot sauce.
• Austin IS a part of Texas, even if that's where all the liberal tree-huggin', organic granola chuggin', Prius lovin', old hippie types live. 
• God Bless the Alamo.
• People ARE friendlier. 
• And  yes, we do things bigger here. Why not?
• It's hotter than hell here.

So sit back, grab an Ice Tea, sign on to my Feed so you can keep up, and join me as I explore Those Texan Parts of Me that I Lost When Life Intervened.