/lit/ - Literature

>>22428805
I'm from Texas of several generations now and have a certain attachment to the place, but lmao

The traditional Texan attitude is more Saudi really. Nowhere as strict as that but it's a giant shopping mall on top of natural resources and imported cheap labor. It's the kind of place where big businessmen discourage artists, and have built an environment rather hostile to them, but buy art to show off to other rich people in other cities. Rather insecure. That's more Dallas though. Authoritarian sensibilities. One of the highest prison populations in the country, probably one of the highest rates in the world if it was a country.

https://youtu.be/7medV0jzF1I?si=KC19Nyv0fRRcJXcO&t=79

>>22433310
Good news for country-western.

>>22433415
The Rust Belt seems like it's going to rebound... but for artists, I still think Los Angeles even though it's expensive. It's where the Brooklyn podcasters are moving.

>>22433424
There was one legislator who filed a secession referendum bill earlier this year in the Texas State House but was then expelled two months later in an unanimous vote for fucking a 19-year-old intern after plying her with drink. There's also a noticeable lack of Texan right-wingers on the national stage right now, but it seems to attract the media types who make it their home. Alex Jones, Glenn Beck and Steven Crowder are all residents.