From an article titled: Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch by Pamela Colloff in Texas Monthly.

My guess is old Larry here is a republican...because many of his neighbors are less kind about Bush and his family...

The 59-year-old rancher wore an old blue baseball cap pulled down over his eyes; his shaggy salt-and-pepper hair fell against his neck, which was tanned and creased from the sun. A recent divorcé, he lives alone with his old and half-blind dog, Dan, who is bewildered by the F-16s and Blackhawk helicopters that now fly overhead. "It's like a ground war over here," Larry said with a chuckle. His ranch, like the president's, is on Prairie Chapel Road, the main artery that runs through Crawford's farmland and ranchland. Families of German extraction have worked the land along this road since the Civil War and mostly keep to themselves. "People out here want to be left alone," Larry said. "We'd rather be scooping manure out of a barn than going to a fancy social event in Waco." Larry remembers barn raisings and long days picking cotton and relatives who whispered in German. "We'd work our tails off in the fields in the day, and we'd practice football at night, and then we'd cool off in Tonk Creek," he said. "It was like Mayberry. Everyone knew your parents. Everyone watched after everyone. The night watchman in town had a key to the drugstore. He'd let us in for ice cream after we went swimming, and we'd leave our money on the cash register."

Staring out toward the Bush ranch, Larry explained that before Bush bought the ranch it had been a hog farm. Nowadays, Larry finds himself feeling nostalgic for the time when the hogs made the air more pungent. "Sometimes I wish I could still smell those hogs and hear them squealing instead of listening to all those F-16s," Larry said, breaking into a grin. "Don't get me wrong; the Bushes are fine folks. It's not about George Bush. It's about what comes with him." Larry ticked off a long list of grievances: Secret Service roadblocks on Prairie Chapel Road where he was asked to show identification, property taxes that have become so high that he worries he will have no legacy to pass on to his sons. He and his neighbors are concerned about a proposed new road, to be constructed so that the presidential motorcade will not have to slow down for curves; if built, it would bisect Larry's ranch and several other ranches. Most of all, he is angry that Secret Service agents speed past him each day without having the common courtesy to wave. "Country people drive slow," he said. "We're used to pulling over to the side of the road and visiting. But if you wave at the Secret Service, they think, 'What's his problem?' It used to be you knew everybody when you drove by. Now everyone's a stranger."