What’s a ‘Texiz curse word’?

Cursing is not a flattering form of speech for the speaker and certainly not for any intended or even incidental target. 

Of course, in Texiz and much of the Old South, we don’t say “cursing,” we refer to the vile verbal bile as “cussin’.”

My mother’s list of unacceptable words was endless. On the other hand, Dad’s raising was more hard-scrabble. He was a cowboy-rancher-farmer, who was orphaned at 11 and destined to a boyhood and pre-teen years as an unwanted Depression cast-off by his relatives. His youth knew little tenderness or refinement. His language could be salty.