Olie; there are reasons for that. And one such reason is that the people of Texas collectively promote that image of themselves to the rest of the world. Here's an example, and I'm going from memory here, so I might be incorrect. I haven't watched TV in a while, but when I did, Austin City Limits was one of the shows I watched. The opening of the broadcast included commercials from the sponsors, one of which was the Texas Tourism Board (or some such similarly named organization) (now that I think about at length, it may have been the Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau); and the soundtrack for that commercial, if I remember correctly, was Miles and Miles of Texas featuring some really nice pedal steel work.
It's like cowboy hats. My guess is that there are people in Texas who do not wear cowboy hats, and that there are people in Texas who wear other kinds of hats. But the image people have of Texas is of a place where everyone wears cowboy hats. And the image Texas and Texans collectively portray of themselves to the world is of a state where everyone wears cowboy hats (probably to the consternation of some non-cowboy hat wearing Texans).
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[note: it took me over an hour to write this, and in the meantime Olie's posted two other messages; so this was a response to his first post about Texas Swing]
(Message edited by davehouck on November 13, 2007)
