Where Rick Perry comes from: How the Texas Plains shaped a future presidential candidate

Dallas News ^ | Oct 8, 2011 | CHRISTY HOPPE

[Clairity]

On the flat patch of the Texas Plains where Rick Perry grew up, the years are measured in harvests and rainfall.

Rustic is putting too high a gloss on it. Until he was 7 years old, there was no indoor plumbing and the family used an outhouse. Bathing consisted of filling a galvanized metal tub on the screened-in back porch. When the wind blew, the dry dust from the fields seeped through the cracks in the planks and settled, much to his mother's dismay, on the couch and chairs.

"It was a really old house. But it was home," Perry said.

[Clairity]

It's a good article -- gives us more insight into Perry's early years of growing up in Paint Creek.

[Clairity]

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[BobL]

...almost as good a story as Cain’s.

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Very good article.

[bobby.223]

Keep posting that pic. Just reminds everyone how damn stupid the illegal/muslim lover ricarrdo is. I bet you don’t even have a clue as to why I call him stupid over that pic’s image do you? (Bet you don’t own anything above an old Cross. Powermaster 760!!!....look it up). Didn’t think so.

[Grey Eagle]

I can tell you, that any boy growing up in West Texas knows how to work. It was especially hard then and not much better now. Not a place I ever wanted to live. The article was excellent and provided greater insight into Perry and his belief systems.

[Grey Eagle]

Your comments and ugly name calling is not needed to convey your opinion. Your purpose is very clear.

[steel_resolve]

Interesting article. No way in hell he gets my vote.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

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[BuckeyeTexan]

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[mkjessup]

It's a good article -- gives us more insight into Perry's early years of growing up in Paint Creek.

Not a bad article, except that it fails to explain why Perry didn't study harder in school, (C's and D's, basically a scholastic dumb ass), instead of applying himself like Herman Cain who went on to become an actual rocket scientist for the United States Navy, calculating ballistic missile trajectories with his degree in mathematics.

[DaveA37]

Oh how I would love to hear a Cain vs “Buckwheat” debate.

[bobby.223]

Whatever you say noob.