“I’m from Texas. What country are you from?”

“I’m from Texas. What country are you from?” has appeared on bumper stickers since the 1990s. Texas used to be a country; some people believe it still is.
 
 
StickerZombie.com
I’M FROM TEX. WHAT COUNTRY ARE YOU FROM?
imfromtexaswhatcountry$3.99  
 
Google Books
Government and Politics in the Lone Star State: Theory and Practice
by L. Tucker Gibson and Clay Robison
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall PTR
1993
Pg. 1:
I’m from Texas. What country ar you from?
Bumper stickers seen on cars in San Antonio
 
Dave Barry’s Blog
I used to have a friend from Texas - when he met new people, he always said “I’m from Texas - what country are you from?”
Posted by: TCK | 08:35 AM on July 8, 2005
 
The Law School Transplant
Friday, November 17, 2006
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Not four hours after I received news of my impending doom trip to Texas, I saw an SUV with a Texas plate on it. And if that wasn’t enough, it had a Texas flag sticker in the window. And if a person was dull enough not to realize the driver was, in fact, from Texas, it had a bumper sticker that read, “I’m from Texas. What country are you from?”