I grew up in Chino, which is near Ontario, Pomona, Upland, etc. It was a very good place to grow up, but that place no longer exists in anything like the form it held from 1964 when we moved there from Santa Anna to 1974 when we left for Iowa where my dad was partially from. California is what sometimes happens when you get too much of a good thing.
Oh my goodness, 2DV! You're not a native Texan so you must be liberal plant! :)
Seriesly, there's a contingent of Texas FReepers who don't consider those of us not born here (self included) to be second-class Texans (at best). That's in spite of some pretty scummy people who are native Texans: Lloyd Doggett, Dan Rather, Domingo Garcia, Willie Nelson, Scott Pelley, Bob Schieffer, LBJ, Sam Rayburn, Ralph Yarborough, Tommy Lee Jones, Natalie Maines...and that's just a start.
On the other hand, Texans by choice include you (of course) as well as Ted Cruz, Chuck Norris and Ted Nugent. These "outsider" embrace true Texas values of being pro-God, pro-life and pro-gun far more than those who happened to exited their mother's birth canal in this glorious state.