Spirit of Place Conference: Texas Style Panel; Spirit of Place Conference: Texas Style Panel
- (Tape Begins) Marietta Merrick from Duschene Academy, Dan Farlow from Texas Politics, Molly Ivins, Marry Ellen Kirsch- a writer, Kathleen Isaac's from Indiana Universityy Dr. Briggs from Indiana University
- Non-Texans get their Texas info from TV.
- Non-Texans impressions about Texans were overwhelmingly negative
- 80% of Texans value land, law & order, state history, honesty, substance, freedom, hatred for phonies, etc. etc. etc.
- Non-Texan believe than Texan values are more negative, including a preference for "loose & wild" women.
- Movie soundtrack theme for (?) was Conolly's campaign song for governor his run-off.
- Patsy Cline
- Marietta Merrick from Duschene Academy in Houston starts speaking.
- Christian anti-Communist Crusade
- "I think he's going to beat me up for Christ."
- Neiman Marcus
- Houston's style was always freer
- Dallas vs. Houston
- Dallas known as the City of Brotherly Hate
- "Some hymn-stealing son of bitch has stolen my hymn book"
- Tommy Tune
- Doing things with what they have is the Texan way
- Horton Foote is voice of Texas
- Hollywood's expectations of Texans
- Marietta Merrick finishes her speech
- Dan Farlow begin speaking
- Texas' Dirty Political Tricks
- Sen. Lloyd Benson
- Bill for safety requirements for school buses
- Took hours to pass a bill to filibuster a bill after it.
- Hobby's Gavel
- Power of Gavel, Power of the Microphone
- Furlow Ends
- Mary Ellen Kirsch starts about Ann Richards
- Texas bestows greater status for women as they age
- Hirsch ends
- Molly Ivins Begins
- Texas identity in Europe
- 3 factors contributing to Texan independent identity are: Texas history, big size, school system
- 70% of state lives in cities.
- Texas becomes fashionable we play up to the role
- Becomes a professional Texan
- Mossbacher as "Indian Maiden"
- Texas is not full of rich people it is full of poor people
- Passing as a "non-Texas"
- Texans are not noisy when they're angry
- Come to Texas & see what the world must have been like
- Texas truly is larger than life
- "Texas is very much like everywhere else. Only moreso."
- Everyone who lives in Texas becomes Texan. The only bad thing is that it never goes away.
- "Damn near everybody who died at the Alamo was not a native Texan."
- George Bush as a Texan
- Texas women
- Ma Ferguson & Kilgore Rangerettes
- Iron Butterfly, Steel Magnolia, sterotype of southern women. South Texas Hispanic machismo. Frotier women & strength.
- True history of the women on the Frontier
- Molly begins to make fun of Dallas
- Dallas as more Texan than Houston because Houston is more international.
- Dallas is a large East Texas town.
- Tomb of the unknown shopper
- John Birch anti-Communist nutties.
- Dallas is Funny but it doesn't know it.
- H. Ross Perot stories that are hilarious
- Tax Reform H. Ross Perot story.
- Molly & Tommy Tune are both graduates "Miss Ladell's Academy of Tap, Toe, Charm"
- Mike Martin
- "Longview is the meanest town in America"
- In Texas it is illegal to pay somebody to shoot you.