"We Certainly Have a Lot More in Common With Mississippi Than We Do With California, Alright?”

"'When modern Texans in cities such as Houston put on their boots and Stetsons and head for the rodeo or hearken back to the days of movie westerns that portrayed their state as cowboys, rustlers, and gunfighters, they are drawing on a collective memory that, although it has a basis in fact, is not the essence of Texas,' writes historian Randolph B. Campbell."


John Nova Lomax in Texas Monthly writes about how a southern state presented itself as western.