Umm, sorry. I was being extremely sarcastic. A&M, at least at the undergraduate level, is anything but a bastion of liberalism. It is a hotbed of libetarianism of the most stupid form. Anybody who thinks that US universities are, by definition, liberal, has never been here. The Young Conservatives, an active group here, are totally redundant. Most of the undergraduates agree with them. And at least a lot of the profs agree with them. My wife and I joined a group which arranged meetings between profs and students. The profs who joined were much more to the right than I am. Who really takes theWashington Times as a serious news source? Okay, other than DR?
Sorry......I know only a little about Texan universities and politics. Your statement didn't make sense to me but then its about TX........and there's a lot I don't know about TX.
And yeah, you probably can't understand Texans.
Strangely enough, I met some Texans when I first got to LA and we became friends for a while. I eventually got tired of hearing the Yellow Rose of Texas being sung every two hours or so and the laments about how much they missed TX and wanted to go back. When I finally went there on business, I was surprised to find that it wasn't the land of milk and honey.
Contradiction and adaptation is central to our psyche. It comes from living in an environment that tries to kill you at every turn. Not like the Disneyisque environment that you are used to. My wife felt that fire ants and killer bees were unfair. I consider them part of life...
Frankly, I think being a liberal is probably more dangerous than being a raccoon or possum in the state. Well, at least you've got the accent down pat! <g>
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