“Don’t California my Texas!” If you hang out on news outlet Facebook pages you have probably seen this statement any time a story about Texas becoming Blue shows up.

In Texas, however, the seminal sentence came from Larry McMurtry’s In a Narrow Grave, when he remarked, “Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken ...

In most instances, California has a significantly higher minimum wage at $16.50 an hour, whereas the minimum wage in Texas remains at the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

In his 2022 race against former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, Gov. Greg Abbott posted a petition on his campaign website that said “Tell California liberals: Don’t California my Texas!” ...

"Don't California my Texas" is a common refrain of Texans who don't want an influx of Californians to influence the traditional Republican values of the state.

Let me back up. In my experience, Texas can get an unfair rap from the coastal types. When my husband and I left Washington, D.C., for Dallas in 2014, we were given a nice bottle of red wine and ...

Pushed by the soaring cost of living, more than 700,000 Californians have moved there since 2008. It's part of the reason Texas has turned surprisingly purple.

Texas has been Texas all my life, I have no plans to consider that romantic feeling otherwise. Thirty years ago a lot of folk from CA found Idaho and the bumper stickers yelled don't Californ ...