“In short, I fully assimilated and consider myself a Texan — having made a decision to move here and adopt Texas ways and spurning any Yankee-isms. Yes, I wish I could have been born here but I really had no control over that.”
The fact that you weren’t born in Texas makes you no less of a Texan; this concept was irrefutably demonstrated by Davy Crockett.
Thanks...and it works the other way.
Take that vile cretin Jim Hightower, Marxist ex-Ag Commissioner for example. He was born in Denison but this reprehensible "man" is hardly a Texan. He's to the left of Bwaney Fwank! Hightower is Exhibit A of "...all hat and no cattle":