Word: state
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...arrived at Yale a legacy, the grandson of a Senator, the son of a member of Congress. But throughout his four years in New Haven, George W. Bush managed to hang onto his Lone Star State roots...
...Deke was the jock house all right, but this was no Mississippi State," says Deke member J.P. Goldsmith, who was a year behind Bush at Yale. "Every body could read and write, everybody could wear a neck-tie and everybody went to class...
After his senior year, according to the Washington Post, Bush was denied admittance to the University of Texas law school, despite his in-state status...
Ironically, Texans found his Yale background as alien as the Yalies found the Lone Star State resident. In 1978, Bush ran for Congress from Texas against Democrat Kent R. Hance. Hance, a graduate of the University of Texas and of Texas Tech University, looked at Bush's Yale degree and immediately saw his opening...
Hance painted a picture of Bush as an Ivy League carpetbagger, trying to wreak havoc on a state he did not understand...