In Impromptus today, I do a little recounting of three recent visits to National Review headquarters: by T. Boone Pickens, Thomas Sowell, and Sharron Angle. (The last of these three is the new Republican Senate nominee in Nevada.) I’ve been getting some mail saying, “Boone Pickens is not a Texan, as you say he is: He’s from Oklahoma.” This mail tends to come from Texas. And I know that Pickens was born in Oklahoma and spent his first years there. But he got to Texas about as quick as he could (to borrow from a bumper sticker). And he has spent his life there. For much of the country, he epitomizes “Texas oilman,” or “Texas bidnessman.” And if any “outsider” has earned the right to be called a Texan — isn’t it T. Boone Pickens? Besides which, many people consider Texas and Oklahoma one great state, with Oklahoma serving as North Texas. (Just kidding, Oklahomans! Please don’t cancel your subscriptions. And we all know that Texas is nothing more than Baja Oklahoma, right?)