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Article: Bookish on Texas
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- The Texas Observer
- Article date:
- January 16, 2004
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CopyrightCopyright Texas Democracy Foundation Jan 16, 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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In the last issue of 2003, we printed a letter from a reader who wrote to ask what it is that makes one a Texan. "I lived in Texas for about seven of the past 12 years," wrote Matthew Saroff of Baltimore, Maryland. "I voted in elections, made friends, participated in public society there, and paid sales taxes. That being said, I was never a Texan, I was just a citizen of the state of Texas. I did not have whatever it is that makes a Texan."
One response to Mr. Saroff's question comes from Naomi Shihab Nye. In the introduction to a forthcoming collection of writing and drawing from Texas, she writes: "It's rumored that some states won't grant full-fledged status-of-belonging to residents ...