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    'God Save Texas' is Lawrence Wright’s affectionate, eye-opening, slightly rueful love letter to his native state

    Apr 19, 2018 3 minutes

     Is there any other state that can match Texas’s outsized impact on the rest of the country? The state gave us Buddy Holly, Lyndon Johnson, and George W. Bush.  The 20th-century automobile boom was fueled with Texas oil.  And thanks to the size of the Texas schoolbook market, the state board of education has a disproportionate influence on the textbooks used in American schools.

    If it were an independent nation (which Texans of a certain ilk will never

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