Click here
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/browse
Top right hand corner, click on 'more...'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/my/
Click on 'my local'
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/profiles
At the top, click on 'set my location'
Top left hand side, under 'location' select the state you want to join, then scroll down and hit OK.
Your state flag will be flying at the top left corner, click on the flag and you're there.
You can also access this from your profile page.
Ok. Is that Texas section the same as the "discussions pertaining to Texas", or are those two different things?
Can you give me a link that explains how FR is set up? How it's divided into different sections, topics, etc? I clicked on "help" but it didn't offer much information. I searched using the word "help" and that didn't help me at all (returned irrelevent threads).
How do I find my bookmarks? :^)