He won his Senate primary in an upset, earlier this year, partly by adhering to the secure-the-borders mentality popular with most Texas Republicans.
A similar, centuries-old cross-border mentality unites other "twin cities" along the entire borderline, including El Paso/Ciudad Juárez and Brownsville/Matamoros.
The media and the human-rights activists who monitor these cases had assumed that the killings of young girls were a phenomenon defined by the Juárez border mentality, its transient and economically deprived population, and a burgeoning drug culture.
But Hamilton understands the border mentality, and his tensile prose -- with its shifting images of heat and cold, light and dark -- reflects the dramatic, often violent contradictions of people who live on the edge of the world.
A centuries-old cross-border mentality unites twin cities along the entire length of borderline, including El Paso/Ciudad Juárez, and Brownsville/Matamoros.
"This neighborhood has a strong sense of community that borders on siege mentality". December 11 , 2014
"I hope it doesn't represent a closing down or a firming up of the border, or of mentalities south of the border".
"I hope it doesn't represent a closing down or a firming up of the border, or of mentalities south of the border," said Dyck, who added that he had no trouble getting through the border for Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009.
Judah sees Poland's watchtower scheme and the strengthening of the border as indicative of a wider sense of fortress mentality in the area.
The antiterrorist bunker mentality that transfixed the country was felt acutely along the United States borders with Canada and Mexico, where police constricted the multibillion-dollar flow of goods, disrupting trade, causing parts shortages and adding to costs.
While the Scots seem confident about their future, a Little Englander mentality is in danger of taking hold south of the border, in which every external challenge is perceived as a threat.
