Burnt Orange Report

For once we agree. The Alamo would have been a MUCH better representation of Texas.

Was there a design that incorporated the Alamo? I don't remember one when I voted for a design several months ago. All the designs were dull, much like this one, especially compared to some of the wonderful detailed designs for other states, several of which had some type of historical image.

Ours just incorporates the name of a bad beer. :)

I like thew fact that the star seems to eminate from the North Texas area!

It's so visionary and creative! Just like naming the Houston football team the Texans. I'm glad we've got some deep thinkers in this state. Most of the state quarters are lame or leave you scratching your head. I would say ours is lame.

Count your blessings, Longhorns!
At least you have a distinct image which is easily identified with your state.
Most of the state quarter designs are ugly, cluttered, and show little comprehension of what shows up well on a surface as small as a quarter.
Most of them were probably designed by committees which were trying to please various interest groups within their states.
Especially hideous are: SC, IN, and MS.

Here in IL there was a huge lobbying effort to get Abe Lincoln on "our" quarter. I love Lincoln as much as anybody. He was our greatest president. The Republican Party just hasn't been the same since his untimely death.
But the Great Emancipator is already on the penny and the $5 bill. Lincoln has one of the highest profiles of anybody in American history. One would have to be more historically illiterate than a Nader voter not to know who Lincoln was.
However, there was such an imperative to get Lincoln on the IL quarter that it soon became a matter of just how they were going to work Honest Abe into the design.
Eventually they took one of the original designs featuring Lincoln, shrunk it, and then threw in bits of the Chicago skyline and some rural scenes for good measure. The design just looks like a generic hodgepodge.

The state quarter designs remind me of the saying, "A committee is a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary."

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I expected the Alamo as well, but not bad.

Ok well i think this is what should have been on our quarter. The Capitol or the Alamo one of the two. Then maybe some bluebonnets on the side, and of course the lone star. So we got one thing, the star. I like it, plus, its just a quarter!