Comments on: What is it about the Longhorns the New York Times Doesn’t Like? http://www.dogcanyon.org/2010/01/09/what-is-it-about-the-longhorns-the-new-york-times-doesnt-like/ Politics, Opinion and Culture, for Texas and Beyond Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:14:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Lanehttp://www.dogcanyon.org/2010/01/09/what-is-it-about-the-longhorns-the-new-york-times-doesnt-like/comment-page-1/#comment-1662 Lane Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:59:05 +0000 http://www.dogcanyon.org/?p=3852#comment-1662 "But we can all shout and scream. We can yell at umpires and referees (I excel at this ...)"I can attest to this. Going to an Astros game with Glenn (or any of the Smith Bros. for that matter) has always been a real treat. Umpires beware. “But we can all shout and scream. We can yell at umpires and referees (I excel at this …)”

I can attest to this. Going to an Astros game with Glenn (or any of the Smith Bros. for that matter) has always been a real treat. Umpires beware.

]]> By: Gary Bennetthttp://www.dogcanyon.org/2010/01/09/what-is-it-about-the-longhorns-the-new-york-times-doesnt-like/comment-page-1/#comment-1648 Gary Bennett Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:49:43 +0000 http://www.dogcanyon.org/?p=3852#comment-1648 Somewhere along the way (around the 1950s), the Northeastern Establishment decided that Texas was no longer just a place of quaint cowboy and oilman stereotypes, but a long-term threat to supremacy. Southern California underwent similar treatment, but after 1980 the USC upstarts had assimilated their rivals (which is why mainstream media treatment of Reagan suddenly became much more respectful of him and far more respectful than they had ever been of Nixon). It is not so much any newspaper's editorial policy as it is a generalized feeling in the region that Texans are "Them." Alabama by contrast has been, save for the period when George Wallace was attracting a nationwide political following, seen as a safe little backwater that can still be patronized.All this I can say not only from analysis and long-time readership of the New York Times but also as one who lived in the Northeast for 36 years, most of them in Philadelphia. Somewhere along the way (around the 1950s), the Northeastern Establishment decided that Texas was no longer just a place of quaint cowboy and oilman stereotypes, but a long-term threat to supremacy. Southern California underwent similar treatment, but after 1980 the USC upstarts had assimilated their rivals (which is why mainstream media treatment of Reagan suddenly became much more respectful of him and far more respectful than they had ever been of Nixon). It is not so much any newspaper’s editorial policy as it is a generalized feeling in the region that Texans are “Them.” Alabama by contrast has been, save for the period when George Wallace was attracting a nationwide political following, seen as a safe little backwater that can still be patronized.

All this I can say not only from analysis and long-time readership of the New York Times but also as one who lived in the Northeast for 36 years, most of them in Philadelphia.

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