It was once!  And it probably will be again, sometime in the future.


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Robert Handy
Brazoria County Historical Museum
100 East Cedar
Angleton, Texas  77515
(409) 864-1208
museum_bob
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From:   Peter Youngman[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Thursday, February 11, 1999 1:11 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: "Just another state in the Union"

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.