Issue 1: A friend of mine just got back from playing minor league ball in Amarillo for the summer and related to me an interesting story. When asked by a girl, a college graduate at that, where he was from, he replied, "Wisconsin." To which she replied, in all honesty, "Where's that?" When he explained that it was a state she asked where. Then she seemed unable to understand that it was to the north of Texas, apparently believing that Texas takes up the entire middle of the country.
Now my dad, who used to do a lot of business travelling down there and to Mexico, once brought back a postcard featuring an image titled "A Texans view of the United States" in which Texas did indeed take up the entire middle of the country with the other states pushed over to the sides or combined into vague identities like "Bunch of little states". I had no idea it was so true.
Issue 2: Why the hell is the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce sending me email trying to get me to move there?