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yonder

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6. I endured 6-7th grade at a small school in Central Texas.

Mon Sep 26, 2022, 04:53 PM

Sep 2022

Coming from elsewhere, I could not believe the amount of positively spun Texas history continuously shoved down our throats: Sam Houston, Alamo, etc. all good, Santa Ana, Mexicans, indigenous "others", etc. bad, everyday, all the time. After escaping and in retrospect, I came to realize what that propaganda was all about.

I also got into more fights than anywhere else we ever lived. Most of the squabbles were from chest-thumping bully types defending their home-grown illusion of "Texas We're #1". Damn, I hated that place more than any other and was grateful to finally get out of that state and back home.

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1836 Project promotes sanitized version of Texas history, experts say [View all] TexasTowelie Sep 2022 OP

I doubt their history will tell how Jim Bowie sat in Fredonia (Nacadoches) vlyons Sep 2022 #1

I endured 6-7th grade at a small school in Central Texas. yonder Sep 2022 #6

The larger cities in Texas, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, etc are becoming more cosmopolitan vlyons Sep 2022 #7

I recommend you read Forget the Alamo instead. broiles Sep 2022 #2

I could smell Dan Patrick on this before I read it. (nt) Paladin Sep 2022 #3

I have never been in a state where its history was part of acquiring one's license. niyad Sep 2022 #4

While I don't condone spreading propaganda, TexasTowelie Sep 2022 #5

Given that, as it states in the OP, this is a conservative ba klash to thev1619 niyad Sep 2022 #8

If a state agency tried that with me when I had to renew Genki Hikari Sep 2022 #9

I told you so. This was Abbott's response to Trump's squashed 1776 Project. Shell_Seas Sep 2022 #10