Erica Grieder is a senior editor at Texas Monthly, based in Austin. From 2007 to 2012, she was the southwest correspondent for the Economist. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, the New York Sun, the Spectator (UK), and More Intelligent Life.
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Texas may well be America's most controversial state. Evangelicals dominate the halls of power, millions of its people live in poverty, and its death row is the busiest in the country. Skeptical outsiders have found much to be offended by in the state's p... SEE MORE