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...There's a lot of state pride," he adds. "You might attribute it to the Western stereotype of individuality and self-sufficiency that we all feel. It seems to be particularly Texan...
Stone says that Texans are so proud of their state that "there's a bumper sticker that says: American by birth, Southern by luck, Texan by the grace...
...either Clinton's or Gore's schedule because Bold Al turned out to be a saving influence on Clinton's first term. During the North American Free Trade Agreement battles of 1993, he insisted on debating Ross Perot against the wishes of White House staff--and outsimplified the Texan at his own game. Together with Morris, Bold Al helped turn around the rudderless Clinton presidency after the midterm-election debacle of 1994, urging Clinton to embrace the balanced budget in June 1995 when most other White House advisers were against it; arguing in August 1995 that it was high time...
...death penalty is racist." This common mantra among the most liberal of capital punishment foes dictates that the state execute a disproportionate number of minorities relative to whites. The NAACP asserts that in 1991, blacks comprised 12 percent of the Texan population but a full 55.5 percent of executed Texans, a ludicrous five-fold over-representation...
...this contention rests on very shaky ground. The NAACP fails to point out that 48 percent of the Texan prison population is black. In general, in certain parts of the United States, some groups sadly constitute a much higher proportion of the criminal population than of the general one. If we assert the inherent racism of capital punishment, we have to declare incarceration to be racist; indeed, we must indict our justice system as a whole...