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Filmmakers have long been drawn to “the Texan” as a personality type. Our series Playing Texan revisits among the most notable of those portrayals, from the legendary to the ludicrous, to find out what they are saying about how the world sees Texas—and the way we see ourselves.   In 1995, my highschool graduating class picked as its senior song the Lynyrd Skynyrd ballad “Tuesday’s Gone.” Frankly, there have been few obvious alternatives. The ’93 and ’94 classes had already taken Boyz II Men’s “End of the Road” and Garth Brooks’s “The Dance,” respectively, using up all of the clichéd favorites. There weren’t many more recent songs that seemed appropriate, either. (We could hardly have the college choir singing Coolio’s “Implausible Voyage.”)...