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== San Antonio ==

Texas's second-largest city as of the 2010 Census (passing Dallas), and the seventh-largest in the US, though the metropolitan area is much further down the list. It's billed as Texas's premier tourist destination: there's Six Flags Fiesta Texas, Sea World, the Riverwalk, and [[Remember the Alamo!|(if we remember correctly) the Alamo]]. It also is — or was at one point — considered the sweatiest city in the US. Historically speaking, there's still quite a bit of Mexican influence in the town. Also notable for the San Antonio Spurs, who generally put up a good team year in and year out, and for being the home of [[Shawn Michaels]], [[Michelle Rodriguez]], and [[Summer Glau]], which makes it ten times more awesome. Located about eighty miles southwest of Austin, meaning that the two cities are sometimes conflated together — and between San Antonio's tourist spots and Austin's, well, [[Buffy-Speak|Austin-ness]], it makes life a lot easier for tourists looking to go to a lot of Texas' big attractions.

 

== Waco ==

A small city located in the middle of the "Texas Triangle" between [[DFW Metroplex|Dallas]], [[Greater Houston|Houston]] and San Antonio/Austin. In 1953, it got destroyed by the eleventh-deadliest tornado in US history (with a death toll of 114<ref>Another Texas town, Goliad, suffered the same death toll from a tornado in 1902, tying it with the Waco tornado as the eleventh-deadliest tornado in US history.</ref>), which stalled its economic growth while cities of similar size like Austin boomed. Forty years later, it was doomed to have its name forever associated with a bunch of doomsday [[cult]]ists who got into an armed standoff with the ATF and FBI at their compound right outside the city, making the word "Waco" a rallying cry for [[Right-Wing Militia Fanatic|Right Wing Militia Fanatics]] for years. [[The Woobie|Poor town.]] Also [[George W. Bush]]'s "ranch", known for a time as the "Western White House", is located a couple dozen miles outside the city. [[Steve Martin]]'s from here, too.