"I just want y'all to know I'm from Texas, and I'm ashamed that Molly Ivins is from Texas."
Mary Tyler Ivins, better known as Molly, was born August 30, 1944 in Monterey, Calif., but grew up in Houston. She just resides in our state...coming from California (land of fruits and nuts) pretty well explains it all.
regards, Maria S, a third-generation (at least!) native-born Texan
Oh crap!!! I was born in Monterey. Probably even in the same hospital, assuming her Dad was in the Army, Fort Ord. Having spent my early years there, I understand where she gets her wacky views from (but it's still one of the most beautiful places in the world along the Pacific Ocean).
California was a totally different place in 1944, very much behind the war effort with lots of women working in the shipyards. There were also lots of farmers and just plain down to earth people. Almost everyone in my old neighborhood had migrated from the south or Texas, most to join the women working in the shipyards or oil refineries. The New York lefties had yet to move here, to show us the joys of socialism.