It's not just little old ladies who look darling in red hats

Our beloved Holy Father named a whole passel of new Princes of the Church.
Not among them, the Donald, nor the out-going papal MC.
I don't know as much as I ought about Abp. Foley or Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, but I shall remedy that.
Much being made of the fact that DiNardo is the first Archbishop from a southern see in the US, but he's a son of Steubenville, Oh-hee-oh.

Update: via Beliefnethttp://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2007/10/pope-names-23-new-cardinals.php
"There's been talk for years about a cardinal from the Sun Belt, but
everyone expected San Antonio or New Orleans, because those are
much older (archdioceses)," said the Rev. Thomas J. Reese of the
Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University. "I guess
the Vatican chose to go with population size."

Is it just me, or is that man a prat? You can practically hear him sniffing, "Hmmmph, instead of doing what I expected them to, the Vatican went with letting those people think they were important just because there were more of them...."
And obviously not EVERYONE expected what you expected, Fr R, Rocco, for one, is doing his best not to strut that he foresaw the possibility back in early '06.
And while San Antonio has been an Archdiocese longer, I believe (I am open to correction on this,) that Galveston was the very first diocese in Texas, considerably before San Antonio.
And the Abp of N.O isn't Latino, nor is the city, and you may be reluctant to mention it, (perhaps like Stephen Colbert, you don't see things like that,) but surely that was a factor?