> "I was in Texas during 9/11 and they were firebombing all the hispanic people's cars"
That's odd, I was living in rural TX when 9/11 and don't recall anything happening like that. And more than half of my coworkers were Hispanic. I remember a few people attacking Sikhs or other vaguely-Asian convenience store owners, not Latinos.
> "Its pretty much black/white/terrorist and hasn't improved all that much in the time since"
I suspect your experience wasn't very representative. After all, Texas has a 40% Hispanic population. Assholes won't be calling them terrorists, they're much more likely to be working them like slaves and paying them scraps off the books.
I suspect the biggest reason for a cross-Austin trip being an event has stayed the same: terrible traffic.
> "Its pretty much black/white/terrorist and hasn't improved all that much in the time since" I suspect your experience wasn't very representative. After all, Texas has a 40% Hispanic population. Assholes won't be calling them terrorists, they're much more likely to be working them like slaves and paying them scraps off the books.
I suspect the biggest reason for a cross-Austin trip being an event has stayed the same: terrible traffic.