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View Poll Results: Which of the Big Industries best describes your Texas family/ancestral roots?
Ranching/Cattle/cowboy 3 13.64%
Cotton/small farming 11 50.00%
Oil/Oil field 6 27.27%
Timber/Logging 1 4.55%
Commercial Gulf Fishing 1 4.55%
Voters: 22. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 08-27-2011, 09:53 PM
 
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Ok, y'all...

It has been a while since I started a poll...and I am trying to come up with something original. I think I might have latched on to one. Here it is:

The Big Three in Texas are Oil, Cotton, and Cattle. Which of those do you most associate with your own Texas' family lines and ancestry?

Cotton was King in Texas for many years, and still is in many ways (we are the largest cotton producing state in the United States), and many of our grandparents depended on it for a living.

Cattle is for sure associated with Texas, along with the cowboy tradition. It may be the most iconic symbol of all.

Oil? Just say "Spindletop"...and just about any Texan knows what a "wildcatter is!

Soooo, question is -- to native Texans -- all other things aside -- which of these Big Three was your own family lines most involved in? Cotton, Cattle, or Oil?
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Old 08-27-2011, 10:01 PM
 
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wow, I guess I'll say energy, since my father works as a engineer in a gas and industrial chemicals plant. But thats not oil,
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Old 08-27-2011, 10:02 PM
 
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but honestly, texas's economy is far more complex than just oil, cattle, or cotton. If it wasn't it would hardly be as successfull as it is
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Old 08-27-2011, 10:05 PM
 
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but honestly, texas's economy is far more complex than just oil, cattle, or cotton. If it wasn't it would hardly be as successfull as it is
Of course I see and appreciate your point. But what I am referring to, for the poll purposes, is that which dates back quite a ways. That is, not modern day...but that associated in more of a geneological/historical sense...and dates back to the roots of one's family when first coming to Texas. So yes, this poll is more one oriented toward native Texans whose ancestry goes back at least a generation or so.
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Old 08-27-2011, 10:15 PM
 
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Ohhh ok, my bad, my families roots are from mississippi ,im a first gen texan. and being black our roots wouldn't have been to great sooooo.... yea I cant answer that one.
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Old 08-27-2011, 10:44 PM
 
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Dang. There's not an "all of the above" option. (Going back on different lines.)
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Old 08-27-2011, 11:16 PM
 
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Ranching and Oil used to be closely tied. A lot of ranchers would lease out their land for oil
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Old 08-27-2011, 11:20 PM
 
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All three, I'm an oilfield worker like my father and my mother's side of the family was big into East Texas cotton. And my father in law is big into cattle and oil.
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Old 08-27-2011, 11:38 PM
 
Location: Central Texas
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Ranching and Oil used to be closely tied. A lot of ranchers would lease out their land for oil
Yep, and even farmers did so. (Yes, I'm Texan, and yes, thanks to my Granddaddy, I have an oil well, though the gas well pays better these days.)
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Old 08-28-2011, 07:21 AM
 
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Historically cattle ranching in Denton and Decatur counties, with introduction of sheep onto the Denton Co. home place middle of last century. The Denton Co. ranch also had back acreage that was farmed -- winter wheat, oats, milo, hay, sometimes cotton.
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