Zim,
As a Texan, I always - ALWAYS - give Okies a hard time. My sister-in-law is an Okie and she has become immune over the past decades to the "abuse" I like to dish out regarding Oklahoma. However, that being said, Texans and Okies are brothers under the skin. My wife and I have started looking at property around Grand Lake of the Cherokees in northeastern Oklahoma as a possible retirement spot. It is quite beautiful up there. It would be exceedingly ironic if I ended up, after all these years, becoming a resident of Oklahoma.
B.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence