To All,
Fwiw, ALL living Texicans are either immigrants or the descendants of immigrants. - Even "us blanket@ss red-men" are relative NEWCOMERS.
(Comanches from the west out near UT, Apaches who left Mexico to escape the Aztecs/Conquistidors, Kickapoos who wandered in from some unidentified place up North, Woodland people like our tribe who came to Texas to escape the US Army in the 1820-40 period, etc.)
The so-called "original resident" Indians either LEFT Texas, intermarried with other Texan folk or simply died out.
To "newcomers" from CA/Yankee States: You will become "Texan by choice", your children will be PROUDLY native-born Texans, your grandkids will be TEXICANS & your Great-grand children will stoutly deny that their family was EVER anything but "PUREBRED TEXICAN, since San Jacinto", clear to the bone marrow.
Note: My mother's Anglo-Scots side of the family started "drifting into Texas" about 1820 & by February 1866 essentially all of her side of the family was here.- My great-grandfather was one of the first native-born Texans from that group of refugees.
(The last group FLED the FURY of the hateful/vengeful/murderous DYs, from Marshall County, MS, in the Spring of 1865 & crossed the Sabine about 2 steps ahead of their pursuers.= They became some of the first Anglo settlers of what is now Franklin County.)
yours, satx
Fwiw, ALL living Texicans are either immigrants or the descendants of immigrants. - Even "us blanket@ss red-men" are relative NEWCOMERS.
(Comanches from the west out near UT, Apaches who left Mexico to escape the Aztecs/Conquistidors, Kickapoos who wandered in from some unidentified place up North, Woodland people like our tribe who came to Texas to escape the US Army in the 1820-40 period, etc.)
The so-called "original resident" Indians either LEFT Texas, intermarried with other Texan folk or simply died out.
To "newcomers" from CA/Yankee States: You will become "Texan by choice", your children will be PROUDLY native-born Texans, your grandkids will be TEXICANS & your Great-grand children will stoutly deny that their family was EVER anything but "PUREBRED TEXICAN, since San Jacinto", clear to the bone marrow.
Note: My mother's Anglo-Scots side of the family started "drifting into Texas" about 1820 & by February 1866 essentially all of her side of the family was here.- My great-grandfather was one of the first native-born Texans from that group of refugees.
(The last group FLED the FURY of the hateful/vengeful/murderous DYs, from Marshall County, MS, in the Spring of 1865 & crossed the Sabine about 2 steps ahead of their pursuers.= They became some of the first Anglo settlers of what is now Franklin County.)
yours, satx