"Lena B Katz" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Leila wrote:
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> > I don't like much about dominant Texas politics but I love my
> > right-wing Texas cousins and not one of them is stupid. OK some of them
> > have some dumb ideas about the rest of the world but that's because
> > their culture is isolated and they live in an echo chamber of
> > xenophobia.
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> I sincerely hope they won't be pointing fingers and saying "Hey! there's a
> black person!" in NYC... unlike _some_ people I know.

Well, unless the Texans live in small town communities, they see plenty of
blacks and every other color, for that matter. Urban areas in TX are *very*
ethnically-diverse.

Mary in Houston