Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>
> --- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > OK, the patriot that started the whole thing is from
> > AUSTIN and the kid he
> > attacked was from HOUSTON?
> >
> > Only the rodeo. Only around the time of SXSW in
> > Austin.
> >
> > Sheesh.
> >
> > (That was the most unbelievable detail of the story.
> > The rest I could see
> > all too easily.)
> >
> > Julia
>
> I think you're going to have to explain that for the
> non-Texans among us, Julia.
OK.
1) Austin is pretty much the most liberal city in Texas. There is a much
higher concentration of peaceniks in Austin than anywhere else in Texas
that I'm aware of.
2) Houston is more typically Texan, and if you took a poll regarding
attitudes on the war, I believe that more people in Houston would be in
favor of it than people in Austin would be.
3) The rodeo is a little more likely to attract people of the pro-war
bent than some other venues.
4) Especially compared to the film & arts festival, South by Southwest
(abbreviated SXSW) that has been going on in Austin for the past 10 days.
There have been all *kinds* of film screenings and all *kinds* of live
music performances, and a lot of the music performances (which have been
going on more recently than the film festival part of it) are very much
*not* Country.
5) So someone living in Austin who'd really like to go to a rodeo and be
listening to Country and standing for the song that standing is not
required for would probably be a lot happier going to Houston for the
rodeo and avoiding Austin during SXSW.
Does that help?
(When I told my husband about it over dinner, he sided with the kid who
didn't stand, and when I told him the detail about who was from where, he
was incredulous.)
Julia
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