@Baldimo,
The people of this **** hole country, the one you described as west or east Texas - see it really doesn't matter which, it's still a **** hole, find it in CA too - are the same cowards who pretend they are honest and forthright, people willing to discuss all, but when it comes down to brass tacks, there is nothing but this all pervasive cowardliness.
Described by the Forbes article, which, in typical cowardly fashion, it was ignored.