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Old 09-01-2016, 01:38 AM
 
Location: San Antonio
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Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady View Post
Okay, where do I fit in? Native Texan since pre-Republic. Ancestors fought at San Jacinto and were responsible, with others, for establishing Houston County in 1937 as the first county in Texas, had a representative at the Secession Convention in 1861, about as born and bred in East Texas as you can get, and still don't identify as a southerner? And say that Texas is "its own thing"?
I can't force you to identify as a southerner. That's not my point at all.
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Old 09-01-2016, 01:44 AM
 
Location: San Antonio
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So do you want a cookie?

If you're acquaintances are debating on whether they consider themselves southern vs. Texan, they are pathetic. Most of us normal people have bills and normal people problems to be tied up with such things.
Why would I want a cookie? There's a point somewhere behind those ineffective insults, but I'm not sure what it is.
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Old 09-01-2016, 02:14 PM
 
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Most people in the states that I've mention would not.
Not according ti this survey/map:


Which States Are in the South? | FiveThirtyEight
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Old 09-01-2016, 05:55 PM
 
Location: Wonderland
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There are a lot of topics here that most people don't discuss in "real" life.
Right and this is one of them.
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Old 09-01-2016, 07:55 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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Right and this is one of them
So I'm not understanding what the point was. What does it matter that people don't discuss these things in every day conversation?
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Old 09-02-2016, 08:25 AM
 
Location: Wonderland
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So I'm not understanding what the point was. What does it matter that people don't discuss these things in every day conversation?
What does it matter than on a discussion forum, we also discuss what's discussed in real life vs online?
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Old 09-02-2016, 10:50 AM
 
Location: San Antonio
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What does it matter than on a discussion forum, we also discuss what's discussed in real life vs online?
You know what would make me happy? If people dodn't participate in topics they have a problem with.
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Old 09-02-2016, 12:31 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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You know what would make me happy? If people dodn't participate in topics they have a problem with.
*did not.
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Old 09-02-2016, 03:05 PM
 
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[quote=TexasHorseLady;28059368]Opinion based on fact and research, KathrynAragon. And I say this as someone who qualifies not only for the Daughters of the Republic of Texas but the Daughters of the Confederacy. They are two very distinct things each requiring a fair amount of research to qualify for, and I have all that up in boxes in my attic. (Done long, long ago.)

Perhaps it is possible others have done a lot of research as well THL?
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Old 09-02-2016, 03:39 PM
 
Location: Wonderland
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You know what would make me happy? If people dodn't participate in topics they have a problem with.
I don't have a problem with it, so I guess I'm making you happy.

My point of discussion (on this discussion forum) was that this seems to be a burning topic online but it's one I literally never hear discussed in real life.

In fact, as a southerner and as a Texan, this topic DOES interest me - I just don't sit around in real life talking about it. It doesn't come up.

If you'd like to know my POV - no, actually, whether you'd like to know it or not, I'm going to say it - is that the eastern half of Texas is definitely southern in character and history, but I can certainly understand why people in west or southwest Texas or the panhandle don't consider themselves to be southerners - and I'm OK with that.

That seems like pretty simple concept.
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