Yes Yes, I apologise for generlizing about Texans. Very wrong of me. However, the poster who did rolleyeyes about Disney being scared of 'offending blacks' made me cross. Two wrongs, though, don't make a right and as I said before, I wish to offend nobody.
To answer the question as to whether Texan's have a reputation for being racist and gunslinging, well, in Britain they seem to have a little. There have been documentries here (I think to coincide with the abolision of slavery anniversary), which seemed to suggest that racism is commonplace and the KKK still very active (and not with good deed doing!!). I am aware that these people are in the minority and my comment was a kneejerk reaction to my irritation I felt at the above mentioed post.
As far as generalization is concerned and just as a side note, my daughter participated in the International College Programme last summer at WDW. She started to get mildly annoyed at the number of people from the USA who asked her if she drank tea all the time, rode around in horses and carriages, or 'knew the Queen'. Yes my comment was ignorant and ill advised but I am obviously not alone in generalizing or believing things I see on TV