# In Which State was George W. Bush Born **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 19, 2010, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-state-was-george-w-bush-born/550800 "2010-08-19T22:55:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-state-was-george-w-bush-born/550800/21 "2010-08-20T02:37:19Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > > [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > > > I’m wondering how many people cheated. Maybe I’m just bitter: I would have thought Texas. > > It helps if you know that his father was attending Yale at the time. He did pretty much grow up in Texas. It was a pretty popular factoid at the time of his first or second campaign, when the whole “red state/blue state” thing was at its highest. The red staters created a whole us vs them mentality, but conveniently ignored the fact that the Bushes were transplanted Yankees. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-state-was-george-w-bush-born/550800/22 "2010-08-20T03:21:46Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > It was a pretty popular factoid at the time of his first or second campaign, when the whole “red state/blue state” thing was at its highest. The red staters created a whole us vs them mentality, but conveniently ignored the fact that the Bushes were transplanted Yankees. I remember it as a factoid from the 2004 campaign. Bush, the guy from Texas, had been born in Connecticut and Kerry, the guy from Massachusetts, had been born in Colorado. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-state-was-george-w-bush-born/550800/23 "2010-08-20T03:23:18Z")
I got it right. Why is Michigan a choice? ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-state-was-george-w-bush-born/550800/24 "2010-08-20T04:06:50Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > How is being born in Connecticut a criticism? His entire campaign was built on being ordinary, blue-collar, “one of the guys,” homey, etc. In other words, it was all BS. His family (starting with Prescott Bush) made a name for themselves in politics in New England and Ohio, and they were possibly the 2nd most powerful political family next to the Kennedy’s at the time. GWB’s money was inherited, not earned, yet they criticized Kerry and Gore for being elitist. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-state-was-george-w-bush-born/550800/25 "2010-08-20T05:06:28Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > > [@hajario](#): > > > > How is being born in Connecticut a criticism? > > His entire campaign was built on being ordinary, blue-collar, “one of the guys,” homey, etc. In other words, it was all BS. Fortunately, he managed to keep the fact that his father had been President a secret from the American voters. And what the _heck_ does any of this have to do with being born in Connecticutt? ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-state-was-george-w-bush-born/550800/26 "2010-08-20T05:44:19Z")
“Total Depravity” was not an option, therefore I did not vote. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-state-was-george-w-bush-born/550800/27 "2010-08-20T06:13:41Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > > [@hajario](#): > > > > How is being born in Connecticut a criticism? > > It makes Connecticut look bad? Even worse than the Lieberman episode. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-state-was-george-w-bush-born/550800/28 "2010-08-20T06:23:57Z")
Kenya! ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-state-was-george-w-bush-born/550800/29 "2010-08-20T10:16:03Z")
My dad knew W. in college. He says he was just another rich WASP, and not in the least bit Texan. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-state-was-george-w-bush-born/550800/30 "2010-08-20T13:34:58Z")
> [@Waffle\_Decider](#): > > IMHO, you would probably catch more people off guard if you had made Maine one of the choices. You are probably right. I knew Bush was born in a northeastern coastal state, not Texas, but that was the extent of my certain knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-state-was-george-w-bush-born/550800/31 "2010-08-20T13:36:47Z")
I read both of Barbara Bush’s books, so I knew the answer. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-state-was-george-w-bush-born/550800/32 "2010-08-20T13:38:15Z")
I won’t believe it until I see his birth certificate, and probably not then either. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-state-was-george-w-bush-born/550800/33 "2010-08-20T13:41:55Z")
I had it in my head that he was born in Massachusetts, but that wasn’t a choice. Seeing that Connecticut was, I picked it. I was right in picking CT, and I was close in thinking MA. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-state-was-george-w-bush-born/550800/34 "2010-08-20T14:10:09Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > Which of these embarrassing faux pas did GWB NOT commit? > a. Gave a shoulder massage to the prime minister of another country on TV. > b. Tried to leave through fake stage doors during a speech. > c. Gave Vladmir Putin a playful nickname that means “vagina” in Russian. > d. Accidentally said something embarrassingly ignorant about black people. Alright, what’s the answer? I don’t know, but I’ll spoiler my comments anyway: spoiler Merkel was chancellor of Germany, not prime minister. (b) happened, as best I can recall (c) AFAIK, ‘pooty-poot’ doesn’t mean vagina in Russian (d) I know nothing about this. Is this the one intended?[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-state-was-george-w-bush-born/550800/35 "2010-08-20T14:28:03Z")
I got it right. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-state-was-george-w-bush-born/550800/36 "2010-08-20T14:30:18Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I got it right. > > Why is Michigan a choice? Perhaps because it’s a large state in which no president of the United States has been born. (Jerry Ford, though he lived most of his life in Michigan, was born in Nebraska. I admit it – I had to look it up.) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-state-was-george-w-bush-born/550800/37 "2010-08-20T14:45:53Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > > [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > > > I’m wondering how many people cheated. Maybe I’m just bitter: I would have thought Texas. > > It helps if you know that his father was attending Yale at the time. He did pretty much grow up in Texas. Note that it’s not as if his father just went to Yale from Texas. George H.W. Bush was born in Massachusetts, and grew up in Greenwich. He joined the navy after Phillips Andover and then went to Yale. It was only after he graduated from Yale that he moved his family (including George W. Bush) to Texas. And George W. Bush attended Phillips Andover and Yale (where he was a Bonesman like his father and grandfather) and then Harvard Business School. (Supposedly he was rejected by the law school at the University of Texas.) I think New Haven tried to put up a sign on the highway into town announcing that it was the birthplace of George W. Bush, but the sign was vandalized as well as its replacement, so the city gave up. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-state-was-george-w-bush-born/550800/38 "2010-08-20T14:46:36Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > the guy from Texas, had been born in Connecticut. … and raised the average IQ of both states when he moved. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-state-was-george-w-bush-born/550800/39 "2010-08-20T15:08:34Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Merkel was chancellor of Germany, not prime minister. The German chancellor is the equivalent of a prime minister – head of government chosen by the majority party in the lower, directly-elected house of parliament. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-state-was-george-w-bush-born/550800/40 "2010-08-20T16:04:19Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > I had it in my head that he was born in Massachusetts, but that wasn’t a choice. Seeing that Connecticut was, I picked it. I was right in picking CT, and I was close in thinking MA. You’re probably thinking of the first President Bush, who was born in Milton, Massachusetts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-state-was-george-w-bush-born/550800.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-state-was-george-w-bush-born/550800.md?page=3)