(TX) Interesting little history lesson...

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quote:"Pretty cool story. I just moved to TX so I am trying to figure out why Texans are so damned proud to live in Texas. "

They are so proud they don't live in Arkansas

I'm in AR, lots of ribbing b/t our two states. I give my neighbors the respect they deserve. They have focused on education as the original post pointed out. AR threw money on lawsuits and forgot about the students.

Heck -we have been building roads since the Civil War, still not finished, they ones we do finish don't last and need fixin'

Must be a good feeling also to know that WJC did't come from your state.

Don't mess with Texas, has other meanings too.

 

[trooper]

Guys,

this is most interesting. If I ever emigrate this looks like a good place to start

In the meantime I will consider it for vacation... haven't been to the US for 6 years anyway...

Thanks for the informative read.


Regards,

Trooper

 

[Vladimir Berkov]

The US Army (nor the Mexican) did not provide defence for the settlers such as it did in much of the rest of the Western expansion.

Well, I am going to have to take exception to that, considering that I had an ancestor who was a US army soldier stationed in Ft. Davis during the 1850's.

 

[Art Eatman]

trooper, you get around Fredericksburg, New Braunfels, Shiner, New Ulm, Hallettsville or Westhoff, you can keep right on talking German. Hope you like polka music; FM 92.5 out of Schulenberg alternates Czech polkas with German.

Art

 

[trooper]

Yeah, the names sound pretty familiar... Do the old folks really still speak German there?

I dunno about the polka thing though... when I was about 12 yrs old they forced me to take a dancing class in Junior High. I guess I'm sorta traumatized

But seriously, it sounds like a great destination for one of my next vacations.

BTW what does the Texan law say about foreigner renting guns at shooting ranges? There was this thread around about non-citizens in AZ getting into trouble for renting guns.



Regards,

Trooper

 

[vapor22]

Guns are cheaper, ammo is cheaper, beer is cheaper. No state TAXES!

Also we were our own country...

 

[ahenry]

Zander,

Reminds me of a past thought...is there any such thing as an organization which celebrates the Tennessee/Texas connection? Seems a Tenn-Tex Society would have more than a few members. If it doesn't exist, mayhaps we should start one...

I dunno, I’d be interested in it though. My ancestors sauntered on over here from Tennessee in 1847 (some left TN before that to go to Alabama and then came here to join the rest a year or so later). Tennessee is a beautiful state with a lot of history and great people. I've always enjoyed my visits to TN, except for your speedlimits.

 

[Britt]

This thread has gotten me downright homesick. Wife is military so being in TX is a sometime thing, but it is home and will continue to be. However, there is one attribute of Texas that I haven't seen. Aside from the incredible scenery, history, lack of state income tax, there is the sheer spledor of UT coeds! I could be biased since I married one. BD

 

[Johnny Guest]

To Texas via Tennessee

My Significant Other and I were doing a drive to DC and Maryland. We had both been through Tennessee previously, and I remarked that everyone we met had been just as friendly as folks at home. She replied, "Well, they ought to be. Tenneseeans are just a buncha Texans who haven't moved yet."

The Tennessee connection to the Lone Star has long been appreciated and is "remembered in song and in story." T for Texas, T for Tennessee. David Crockett and his little group riding into Bexar one chilly February, stopping at the ruined Mission San Antonio de Valero . . . . The valiant Maine Yankees and the New York Irish, with no give in them, dreaded facing a line of both Tennesseans and Hood's or Terry's Texans.

My forebears, mostly from the Carolinas and Georgia, began arriving in the days of the Republic, and straggled in before, during, and after the War for the Liberation of the Southern Confederacy. I can't claim much direct kinship with the Volunteer State, but some of 'em are bound to have traversed it.

Oklahomans and Texans? Animosity? Well, it may look that way sometimes. Kinda like the Irish, and the Scots. If we can't find outsiders to squabble with, we'll fight amongst ourselves.

Re: Intune's post: "A Texas man oughta marry a woman from Oklahoma. No matter how bad things get, she's seen worse."

We could go on and on - - -And have, in other threads. Drizzt, thanks for opening your "Interesting little history lesson...."

"Texians are just normal people, stuck 'way out on a limb."

Best,
Johnny

 

[Dave R]

Texans have plenty of reasons to be proud. You would not believe...

First of all, the story of Texan Independence, from Goliad to the Alamo to San Jacinto is just better than any fiction has a right to be. At least the way they taught it to me in Texas elementary school. Texas History was given twice the time of US history, and was more fun than story time.

Harris county is (or was) the rice capital of the USA. Where would we be without large quantities of inexpensive rice?

Cattle. Oil. Technology, now.

Beaches that would do the Carribean proud (Port Isabel, Padre). Big Bend would look at home is Zions/Bryce. The Hill Country. The pine forests. The fishing. The hunting.

I learned to shoot in Texas. I learned to surf in Texas (Art's right, its harder there...)

Good thing Idaho has big trout, sturgeon, and skiing.

 

[Art Eatman]

Trooper, you walk into a range that rents guns to shoot on-site, and I doubt that anything more than the normal ID would be required.

Dunno 'bout federal law now; used to be, a legal alien could buy firearms in the U.S. Anybody in Texas with legal papers can possess firearms, so far as state law is concerned.

Heck, state law allowed felon ex-cons to have a firearm in the home (but only in the home) for self-defense--but the feds pre-empted that...

Art