The truth about Texas

WHILE visiting Ireland on business, I read Sean Moncrieff’s ‘The Last Word’ column (Irish Examiner, Jan 7) which happened mostly to be about Texas and in which he said that when it came to bigotry, the ‘average Texan’ was not unlike Osama Bin Laden.

The truth about Texas
Mon, 19 Jan, 2004 - 00:00

He made some interesting remarks about how we all have a share of the bigot industry, but some of his comments about Texas and its people deserve a rebuttal.

Texas belonged to Mexico and fought for independence when the standing Mexican military general declared himself a dictator.

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