Davy Crockett’s saying, “Gone to Texas” is becoming very popular for many Americans. Many Americans are leaving their stressful lives in states like California and New York to move to the Lone stare State, Texas. Unlike the people in the 1800’s who were fleeing to Texas to escape debt or the law, many are now fleeing to Texas in search of a chance to start over economically. Tyler Cowen wrote The United States of Texas in Time Magazine to explain the popularity of many Americans moving to Texas, and how other states could mimic Texas’s qualities. Tyler achieves this purpose by sharing personal accounts of people who have followed this trend, and by providing statistics of why people feel that they have a higher chance of success in Texas.
Tyler’s use of personal accounts gives insight of why so many people are moving to Texas and escaping their stressful lives in other states. Tyler tells the story of Tara Connolly. She moved from Brooklyn to Texas in 2005 and has since got a job. She pays a mortgage for a house that is half the cost of what the rent of her Brooklyn apartment used to be. Tyler tells this story to help prove his point of why people are moving to Texas. He uses Tara as a perfect example of someone who left their stressful life and moved to Texas, where they now have a job and a larger property for less of a price than their property in the state that they came from. By using personal accounts, Tyler appeals to pathos. He connects to other people’s lives by telling stories like Tara’s to show how people can benefit from all that Texas has to offer.
Tyler’s use of personal accounts gives insight of why so many people are moving to Texas and escaping their stressful lives in other states. Tyler tells the story of Tara Connolly. She moved from Brooklyn to Texas in 2005 and has since got a job. She pays a mortgage for a house that is half the cost of what the rent of her Brooklyn apartment used to be. Tyler tells this story to help prove his point of why people are moving to Texas. He uses Tara as a perfect example of someone who left their stressful life and moved to Texas, where they now have a job and a larger property for less of a price than their property in the state that they came from. By using personal accounts, Tyler appeals to pathos. He connects to other people’s lives by telling stories like Tara’s to show how people can benefit from all that Texas has to offer.
The use of statistics helps show what other states lack and could learn from Texas. Tyler shares the poverty rate, home prices, tax rate and many other statistics to show why Texas is attractive to so many Americans. Tyler shares that in the last 12 months 274,700 new jobs were created, that is 12% of the total number of jobs created in all of America last year. By sharing this statistic, Tyler shows that many Americans are moving to Texas to find job opportunities because the states that they currently live in do not have as many. Tyler shares statistics to appeal to logos to explain why many people are moving to Texas, and what other states can improve on.
Tyler’s use of sharing personal accounts and use of statistics appeal to both pathos and logos. These rhetorical devices help Tyler show why there is a popular trend of moving to Texas, and what other states could do to mimic qualities of Texas.
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