"You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy"

[Barry Popik]

Does anyone have the earliest on this construction, also said about Texas?


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Pay-Per-View - Los Angeles Times - ProQuest Archiver - Apr 28, 1950   You
can *take* a man out of Texas, but You can't *take* Texas out of the man.
One of Howard Hughes' top pictures of the year, "Sun Scarred," Will be set
in his *...*
*  *
...
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Pay-Per-View - Hartford Courant - ProQuest Archiver - May 1, 1950
  Hollywood--You can *take* a man out of Texas, but You can't *take* Texas
out of the man. One of Howard Hughes's top pictures of the year, "Sun
Scarred," will be *...*


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kerrville_times
1951-08-23<http://www.newspaperarchive.com/newspapers1/na0036/6770013/26023237.html>
Subscription - Kerrville Times - NewspaperArchive - Aug 23, 1951
  Cpl. Joe Schell- hase believes THE old saying that you can *take* a boy
out of *...* and he once pursued them a quarter f THE way to Mansan to *take
* hem back to *...*

... (GOOGLE BOOKS) Southwest Review - Page
560<http://books.google.com/books?id=rskvAAAAMAAJ&q=take+%22out+of+texas,+but+you+can%27t%22&dq=take+%22out+of+texas,+but+you+can%27t%22&ie=ISO-8859-1>
by
University *of* *Texas*, Southern Methodist University - 1924
Among other things, Admiral Nimitz said: It [this gathering] shows that you
can
*take* a man *out of Texas, but you can't take* Texas out *...*
*...*
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 On the Road With Jesus - Walking With the Master - Page
99<http://books.google.com/books?id=VFovicum80QC&pg=PA99&dq=take+%22out+of+texas,+but+you+can%27t%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=0F-ru4alGbJiSDNvmr5G2SHH1vI>by
W. D. Cravenor - Religion - 2005 - 228 pages
Among Texans, it is often said, "you can *take* the boy *out of Texas, but
you can't*
*take* Texas out of the boy." I guess by this time I had *...*



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Hunting *the* Tango: A Novel - Page
10<http://books.google.com/books?id=OJgnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA10&dq=take+take-the-country-out-of+%22out+of+the+country%22+date:1881-1970&num=100&ie=ISO-8859-1>
by
Burr S. Stottle - 1916 - 218 pages
"You know the old saying, Hazel, that you can *take* a man *out of the
country* but
you can't *take the country out of* a man, and I guess that is true of your
*...* ... (GOOGLE BOOKS)     *The* Golden Cocoon: A Novel - Page
69<http://books.google.com/books?id=0AY1AAAAMAAJ&q=take+take-the-country-out-of+%22out+of+the+country%22+date:1881-1970&dq=take+take-the-country-out-of+%22out+of+the+country%22+date:1881-1970&num=100&ie=ISO-8859-1>
by
Ruth Cross - 1924 - 341 pages
"You can *take* the girl *out of the country*, but you can't *take the
country out of*
the girl," Stephen reminded her teasingly one night when he had corrected *
...*
*...*
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*  *
Second Growth: A Novel - Page
104<http://books.google.com/books?id=a9gNAAAAIAAJ&q=take+take-the-country-out-of+%22out+of+the+country%22+date:1881-1970&dq=take+take-the-country-out-of+%22out+of+the+country%22+date:1881-1970&num=100&ie=ISO-8859-1>
by
Arthur Pound - 1935 - 347 pages
"You can *take* a boy *out of the country*," he observed, "easier than you
can *take*
*the country out of* a boy." Where had he heard that one? Must be pretty
old, *...*
*...*
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Ink on My Hands - Page
136<http://books.google.com/books?id=fAorAAAAMAAJ&q=take+take-the-country-out-of+%22out+of+the+country%22+date:1881-1970&dq=take+take-the-country-out-of+%22out+of+the+country%22+date:1881-1970&num=100&ie=ISO-8859-1>
by
Clayton Rand - 1940 - 348 pages
*...* you can *take* the boy *out of the country*, but you can't *take the
country out*
*of* the boy." Pat has been the brunt of many practical jokes in
Mississippi. *...*
*...*
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Dictionary *of* American History - Page
292<http://books.google.com/books?id=rHMiAAAAMAAJ&q=take+take-the-country-out-of+%22out+of+the+country%22+date:1881-1970&dq=take+take-the-country-out-of+%22out+of+the+country%22+date:1881-1970&num=100&ie=ISO-8859-1>
by
James Truslow Adams, Roy V. Coleman - 1942 - 258 pages
Sayings include such subtypes as: (i) proverbs —"You can *take* a man *out
of the*
*country*, but you can't *take the country out of* a man"; (i) riddles—
"Little *...*
*...*
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 Personality: A Biosocial Approach to Origins and Structure - Page
190<http://books.google.com/books?id=W_0MAAAAIAAJ&q=take+take-the-country-out-of+%22out+of+the+country%22+date:1881-1970&dq=take+take-the-country-out-of+%22out+of+the+country%22+date:1881-1970&num=100&ie=ISO-8859-1>by
GARDNER. MURPHY - 1947 - 999 pages
*...* in the less gracious but becomingly authentic words of today, "You can
*take*
the boy *out of the country* but you can't *take the country out of* the
boy. *...*

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