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In South Texas, our friends from the northern Midwestern states are called Winter Texans, not snowbirds. Those folks called snowbirds are Yankees from the Northeast and go to Florida.

Ray Moore, McAllen

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We had a chance to visit the Texas Vintage Motorcycle Museum with

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