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Q: I’ve heard of this or that famous person being named an honorary Texan, but who gets to decide who makes the cut? And how does someone qualify? Mike Konczal, PlanoA: Among the many flattering designations with which a person might be dubbed—dame, grande dame, world champion, supreme potentate, “world’s greatest purveyor of fine advice and keen observations,” et cetera—the label “Texan” is perhaps the most awe-inspiring. To be a Texan, after all, means that you are hailed—or, at a minimum, recognized—the whole world over. Even in the farthest-flung corners of Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America, Antarctica, and the lost continent of Lemuria, you’d be hard put to find a soul who is unfamiliar with the Lone Star State. A few years ago, for instance,…

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