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Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

I don't care if I never see Texas again.

There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.

It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.

Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.