Dallas is (now) a far more tolerant city than the one I grew up in. It is still neurotic, pious, and materialistic, but in part because of the assassination (of President Kennedy) and the humiliation it was made to endure, Dallas is now more open and diverse, more interesting and introspective in a way that it had never been in the past. Dallas learned to transform suffering into social change.

-Lawwrence Wright "God Save Texas"