stephen king is the most banned author in u.s. schools. just 3 states have by far the most attempts to ban books: florida, tennessee, and texas.

percentage of americans that americans think...
... live in texas: 30%


actual percentage of americans who...
... live in texas: 9%

of the 12 southern states that seceded during the civil war, 7 stated in their secession declarations that the reason that they were seceding was to protect slavery.

before roe vs. wade made it to the supreme court, 3 texas judges unanimously ruled declared the texas anti-abortion law involved was unconstitutional because it violated the right to privacy found in the 9th amendment.

in norway, 'texas' is the slang term for 'crazy'.

in texas, prison inmates have to pay for any medical care that is not an emergency or to treat a chronic condition.

in 2005, the voters in a town called white settlement, texas, called for the mayor's resignation for proposing that the town change its name.

california, texas, and washington have banned serving roadkill as food. that's it.

when president kennedy was assassinated, local texas police refused to turn his body over to the secret service. they changed their minds when the president's security detail put them against the wall at gunpoint.

texas has more anti-government militias than any other state. michigan is number 2.

david barton, author of the jefferson lies and founder of the wallbuilders group, portrays himself as a historian. that book, by the way, was called 'the least credible history book in print' by actual historians, college professors of history, and christian scholars. (the publisher yanked the book from the shelves in response.)

these days, barton is working on getting his view of history into public school textbooks by serving as a consultant to the texas board of education.

that's right - they pay him to be wrong.

the texas legislature once unanimously passed legislation honoring murderer albert desalvo for his work in 'population control'.

if you were a married man in texas and walked in on your wife in bed with another man, it was legal to kill that man until 1974.

(but we hear they're rethinking a lot of laws, these days, so maybe it'll make a comeback.)

the last state to decriminalize homosexuality was texas, in 2003.

texas has more than 450 ghost towns.

texas is the only state where citizens also pledge allegiance to the state flag.