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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
I've gotta go with tussery on this one, Azure. Bush was a carpetbagger from the time of his very first Texas campaign--and in fact, in his first run at state office he lost for that very reason--because people saw him as a Yale-educated New England blue-blood, which is, in fact, exactly what he is.
Then he bought a ranch, started wearing cowboy hats and reinvented himself as a native Texan. Apparently it worked, but given that Texans seem to take a while to cotton to outsiders, I don't really see how Bush can be called a "Texan" any more than Dick Cheney is legitimately from Wyoming.
It's one of the reasons that I don't buy into the "Bush is stupid" argument we get on the left sometimes. This is a guy who is Ivy-league educated, comes from New England old money, and received a C average at a very tough school at a time when a C really was the average grade--i.e. before grade inflation became such a huge problem at American colleges. To top it off, he has an MBA. This guy was smart enough to know that a career in politics meant completely re-inventing himself, including his "roots." It's a mistake to "misunderestimate" Bush--and just as important to remember that the "country bumpkin" business is an act. When he was 20, Bush would never have used a word like "varmint."
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That still doesn't mean that Texas isn't his "home" state. It really doesn't matter where he was born, where he grew up and where he went to college. He ran for President "out" of Texas, therefore Texas would be his home state.