Editing Don't Mess with Texas (section)

==References in popular culture==
* On July 19, 1986, four members of the [[New York Mets]] baseball club, in [[Houston Texas|Houston]] for a series versus the [[Houston Astros|Astros]], were arrested at a Houston nightclub.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1986/07/20/4-mets-charged-in-fight/ |title=4 Mets Charged In Fight |date=20 July 1986 |publisher=chicagotribune.com |access-date=2015-06-28}}</ref> Homemade signs held up in the [[Astrodome]] by fans at the following night's game read "Don't Mets With Texas."
* [[Don't Mess wit Texas]] is the debut studio album by American rapper [[Lil' Keke]] from Houston, Texas. It was released on June 17, 1997. 
* Then-presidential candidate [[George W. Bush]] used the phrase in his acceptance speech at the [[2000 Republican National Convention]].<ref name=2013NYTimes/>
* After the [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]] [[Major League Baseball]] club lost the [[2010 World Series]] to the [[San Francisco Giants]], Gary Thomas, President and executive director of [[Dallas Area Rapid Transit]] (DART) lost his bet and had to fly to the [[San Francisco Bay Area]] and serenade patrons using the [[Bay Area Rapid Transit]] (BART). Thomas was quoted as saying, "You know there's a saying that goes, 'Don't mess with Texas. Well DART, don't mess with BART."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2010/news20101108.aspx |title=BART - Lone Texas Rangers fan makes good on his BART bet by serenading riders |publisher=Bart.gov |access-date=2011-03-20}}</ref>
* In the [[Stephen King]] novel ''[[11/22/63]]'', the time-travelling main character, Jake Epping, encounters a shop in a North Dallas neighborhood selling Texas state flags emblazoned with "DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS" in September 1960, twenty years before McClure created the slogan. McClure sent a copy of his book to King's agent to educate him about the error, but he has said that he is happy to have people think the slogan is much older than it really is. McClure has no desire to see a correction made to the novel regarding this anachronism.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Don-t-Mess-With-Texas-lives-on-after-30-years-6844745.php|title="Don't Mess With Texas" lives on after 30 years |date=20 February 2016 |publisher=San Antonio Express-News|access-date=2018-02-23}}</ref>