[Homestead] Geography was: Tell me again why Republicans are good for peo...
bob ford
bobford79 at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 4 10:07:55 EST 2008
I was thinking along the same lines but unsure of my memory. Boone, Crockett, Bowie, Houston were all Southern..................
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--- On Thu, 12/4/08, Clansgian at wmconnect.com <Clansgian at wmconnect.com> wrote:
> From: Clansgian at wmconnect.com <Clansgian at wmconnect.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Geography was: Tell me again why Republicans are good for peo...
> To: homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 8:00 AM
> > > I'd be curious to know where all of you think
> Texas falls
>
> Southern.
>
> Texas was colonized largely by Tennessee. Before Sam
> Houston was President
> of Texas and Governor of Texas he was Governor of
> Tennessee.
>
> Our pattern of speech in Appalachia is from the Cherokee
> influence. Texas
> speech is closely related to Tennessee speech. Sam Houston
> spent a great deal
> of time among the Cherokee and his wife was Cherokee.
>
> There are other influences in Texas to be sure, but the
> backbone of the
> culture is Southern.
>
>
> Deo Vindice
>
> James
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