One of the conditions of moving to Austin was that Camille would be able to put an OU bumper sticker on her car. I was initially somewhat concerned by this. All it takes is one drunk UT statement with a key and her car could be vandalized. UT has a lot of drunk students. Someone at her work is a fellow OU alum and assured her that she need not worry about that. She got the bumper stickers, though has not yet put them on her car.

In the Houston area, the most frequent out-of-state university bumper sticker is LSU hands down. My father-in-law was not the least bit surprised because Louisiana doesn't have the job opportunities for college grads like Texas. Houston is the city closest to Louisiana's major population centers (except Shreveport), so it would stand to reason that it would get the most beneficiaries. Similarly, Dallas is the meeting area where Camille and her college friends often congregate.

Interestingly, here in Longhornland, I see considerably more OU bumper stickers than I do LSU ones. Austin is slightly closer to Oklahoma than Houston is, but the number of OU bumper stickers I see far outstrips the difference. Norman (and OKC and Tulsa) are closer to Austin than are Baton Rouge and New Orleans, though that too is not significant enough to account for the difference. In fact, I suspect that the number of OU grads is probably not much larger than LSU grads. Instead, I am thinking that there are just a lot of OU people who made the same deal with themselves that Camille did: I'll live in Austin, but you can't make me stop disliking UT.