"And symbols like this represent our state." President Bush is proud of his Texas heritage. On a recent trip to his Crawford ranch, Bush told Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah about "our state flower ...

It’s a well-known, inarguable fact that Texans have an outsize love of Texas. So of course, we have a truckload of state symbols to embrace. Some of our official Texas state symbols are ...

Or that petrified palmwood is the official state stone of Texas? Texas has no less than 76 state symbols or designations, according to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, everything ...

DALLAS — Plenty of states have official flora and fauna designations as part of their official symbols, like a state bird (the Northern Mockingbird for Texas) or state flower (Bluebonnets).

monuments and even county names spread across the state. The center lists just Virginia as having more symbols than Texas. Several entries on this list may not be around for much longer.

Of the seventy-some-odd officially designated symbols of Texas, only the state pastry came into being with an expiration date. As you point out, Ms. Jackson, the sopaipilla and the strudel ...