Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. And there's an opening convey of generalities. A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.
Source: Travels With Charley: in Search of America, pt. 4, 1962.
-- John Steinbeck, (Feb 27 1902-1968), US novelist; He aroused widespread sympathy for the plight of migratory farm workers in The Grapes of Wrath, 1939; won Nobel Prize, 1962.