Lifestyle

State Pride & Enthusiasm: What Makes Texas, Texas?

By  | 
Tony Maples Photography

 

What Makes Texas, Texas

Photo: govtech.com

Finally, all Texans share the Alamo. Texans admire and respect that place and what those men did who died there. What happened there is not unique in history. In fact, people have fought to the death in virtually generation ever since man started to record history. What is unique here is that a country was forged out if it.

This is where that rugged individualism comes from. Texans to this day admire people for standing up for what they believe in…even in the face of insurmountable odds. They know they might get knocked on their butts but they don’t care. If they fail, they’re just going to stand up and dust themselves off and say, “Well hell, THAT didn’t work. Now HOW do we make this happen?” Did you catch that? They ask, “HOW do we make it happen?”

What Makes Texas, Texas
Photo: Paul Lowry

One thing about Texans…they are HOW thinkers…not IF thinkers. If never enters into the equation. That goes to the very source of the Texas character. It explains why they are the way they are where all that attitude comes from. For them, NO is NOT an option. As a result of that the cattle industry was started and blossomed here. The oil industry started here and when Texas discovered oil it changed the world. The first computer chip was invented in Texas. Not one of these things were accomplished by accepting the concept of NO.