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...Texans should be happy--anyway it goes, we win. I'm a Texan, too, y'all. But for Black Texans, it may not be so clear cut. Will Blacks still support Dukakis and Bentsen even though the Rev. Jesse Jackson isn't on the ticket? Here's what Black Texans...
...question about supporting the real Texan is really not a question. Texas' Republican Senator Phil Gram predicted that Texans will support a Texan president instead of a Texan Vice-President...
Well, Mr. Gramm I have to disagree. Bush is from several states: Massachusetts (where he was actually born), Connecticut, Maine and Texas. He's registered as a Texan. His address is a room at the Houstonian Hotel. Recently, Texan Democrats had bologna sandwiches in his hotel room, because its bologna that he is from Texas...
Gender swipe. Texas State Treasurer Ann Richards, an excellent speaker with a biting wit, will keynote the Democratic Convention as living proof that gender is a Bush, not a Dukakis, hang-up. She will also stake her claim as a real Texan, not one whose "residence" is a Houston hotel...
...other end of the political spectrum is Carlos Morton, 40, a didactic, polemical, yet often fiercely funny Texan. Born in Chicago, Morton spoke only Spanish until age five, then adopted English. Frequently uprooted to such places as Panama and Ecuador because his father was a career military man, he now teaches at Laredo Junior College, a few blocks from the Mexican border...