Look at my profile....it has not changed since I joined FR. I was not born in Texas, but I have lived here since nineteen ought and fifty eight....so that makes me a Texan...I didn't "come" to Texas from somewhere else, I came home where I ought to have been born. My children and grandchildren are all native Texans...born in Austin and Dallas.....
I actually have said the same things about Texas that Bum said...specifically about people of other countries knowing exactly where Texas is....everyone in the World knows where TEXAS is....no doubts or ignorance of geography.
You know Texas is a pretty special place when a kid in the back bush of Nigeria draws a crude map of Texas with a stick and asks,
"Where's Dallas?"