Outstanding responses to my pro-Texas rant!
Have you heard the one about Texas being able to fly their flag at the same height as the US Flag?

(Actually, I am not sure this is actually true, i think it is an urban myth. We may be allowed to, but I have not seen it - usually the Stars and Stripes is higher)
One of the great things about being a Texan is to be somewhere else, anywhere else (but particularly Oklahoma) and go on a pro-Texas rant and see the immdiate venom that occurs from others - it is a blast. They blame Texas for everything from W. to rattlesnakes, to heat and humidity. It is great fun and works on APC too.
I was in a T-shirt shop on 6th street in Austin, bought a shirt that helps when I do this, it simply says, in big block letters:
"****** Y'ALL, I'm From Texas" - it usually gets a laugh.