Robert Handy wrote:

> For crying out loud, folks.  Texans are different from New Englanders
> too. I am a native Oregonian.  I have been in Texas twenty-seven years
> and I am constantly reminded that I'm not really a Texan--both verbally
> and by what are still, strange and unusual customs.
>
> And just for the record, Canadians are Americans.  They are simply not
> U.S.ians.

What?  Are you saying Texas is part of the U.S.?  And all this time I was thinking
it was part of Mexico.