Texas, and Texans are different. Whether there’s a hurricane bearing down, an ice storm sweeping through, an unrelenting drought testing mettle or tornadoes on the horizon, we are proud of the place we live. We are city dwellers and suburbanites, cowboys and vaqueros, transplants and natives, farmers and ranchers. Bandits, revolutionaries, innovators, hermits, show-stoppers, dreamers and doers. Texans are quick to defend our state and proud to exert the right to complain about how long it takes to drive across it. All are welcome: even those who don’t own a pair of boots, can stomach jalapeños, or can’t remember why they should remember the Alamo.
Texas, and Texans are different. You can tell, just by the history. Over the course of Texas being Texas, it has been:
Adopted by Native Americans
Settled by the French
Claimed by the Spanish
Colonized by the Mexicans
Won by the Texians,
Annexed by the United States
Seceded to the Confederacy
and Reunited with the United States.
But most of all, Home of the proud… and home to Texas Independence Day Ten, our Tenth Annual Texas Independence Day Party. Coming February 26, 2011. We hope you will join us.