Ross, your opinion of civilized is laughable coming from the group that slaughtered people all over the world for financial profit for 300 years. Also, your prison opinion is hilarious since you are in love with the Soviets.

As far as the KKK are concerned, that is the worst kind of bigotry that is often seen from people outside of this country. It's pathetic that you would make an argument based on what people did 100 years ago, since 100 years ago the Brits were busy raping every Indian woman in sight and burning/enslaving their men. Your double standard is really pretty disgusting.

That said, I am from the North so yeah, Texas is a crazy place. Not anywhere I would want to live for sure. Far too conservative and I can't stand the social stratum there. I'm a liberal at heart and can't stand the politics that seem to be common in that place. Anywhere where Rick Perry can win a major election is an atrocity.