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[a7sharp9]

Actually, I just found out that Austin is not Texas (having expressed my mild astonishment at the Whole Foods being based here - don't Texans eat mostly beef with some beef, a side of beef, and a little beef on top?) - it is almost militantly liberal, with all the accoutrements thereof (to wit: motorized boats are forbidden in the Town Lake; the most popular floating craft there is single (sometimes double) rowing shell; I've also seen a couple of sweep-row eights), with population consisting for the most part of aging hippies, state government employees (now there's a combination; societal bomb waiting to go off, held together only by the shared hatred of the common enemy), UTexas students and transplants from elsewhere (out of 5 people at lunch, not including myself, all of them American-born, only one was a native Austinite).