State Nickname: Lone Star State
Now, when I was a Texas schoolchild, we were taught that Texas was the Lone Star State, the only state with a right to a star in its state flag, because it was the only state that had been a country before becoming a state. We felt smug about this. As I have grown older, though, I have become confused about this teaching...what about Hawaii? Hawaii was a country before it became a state, too. And yes, gentle readers, Hawaii was already a state by the time I was a schoolchild. So I don't get it.
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Ah, but could Hawaii be its own country again? We can do that still, right? I think that's where some of the smugness comes from too. We can pack up our toys and go home (not that it would necessarily be a good idea).
What do you mean? Is that in our charter or something? Somehow I remember reading about this war when our state and some others tried to secede...(and secession was not a good idea, as it turned out)
And Lone Star Pa tells me that Alaska has a star or stars in its flag...what kind of crack were my social studies teachers smoking anyway?
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