Lone Star State: Hardscrabble

Big Gun Dept: "I went to Texas A&M," sniffed Perry. "He went to Yale.", according to Vancouver Sun. At first, no one questioned Perry's grit. He strode onto the Republican campaign stage like Bush on steroids. There was more swagger in his walk, more twang in his accent and more barrel in his chest. - When Rick Perry entered the Republican presidential race in August, the Texas governor was asked how he was any different from the last big gun to come blazing out of the Lone Star State, George W. Bush. The implication was clear: Bush was a silver-spooned pretender with a rich daddy and a fancy East Coast pedigree. Perry was the real deal Texan, a country boy raised in the hardscrabble wilds north of Abilene, where rattlesnakes and tumbleweeds outnumber people. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.