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Culture, People, HistoryCulture, People, History
Texas ProudTexas Proud
• Break up into small groups– 5 – 7 in each group
• For each of the regions in Texas, provide one cultural/social and one political characteristic
• What does a Texan “look like” in each of these regions?
• East Texas• Gulf Coast• South Texas• Southwest Texas• German Hill Country
• West Texas• Panhandle• North Texas• Central Texas
HistoryHistory
• Cabeza de Vaca -- 100 years before the Mayflower
• Native American tribes displaced – Cherokees and Caddos -- eastern pine
forests– Karankawas -- coast– Comanches, Apaches, Kiowas -- western
plains
Immigration baseImmigration base
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 -- Mexico to Texas
• Texicans
• first “immigrants”
CultureCulture
• No typical Texan
• Cultural diversity and homogeneity
• Diversity runs along cultural regions
• Express culture, attitudes, beliefs
East TexasEast Texas
• Same characteristics of old South
• rural, biracial, segregation
• wealth -- old money from real estate, banking, construction, retail
• agriculture-- cattle, poultry, timber
• heavy brain-drain and migration to Dallas
• Fundamentalist Protestantism shapes:
– attitudes, beliefs, values
– political, social, cultural activities
Gulf CoastGulf Coast
• Spindletop and oil boom contributed to economic expansion (recession and energy crises)
• important shipping center
• population migration and urban economic development (Houston)
• Rural Texas in an urban setting
• wealth from oil, construction, land development
• now has a more diversified economic base
South TexasSouth Texas
• Rancheros and cattle country
• Rio Grande Valley, the maquiladoras and NAFTA
• heavily Hispanic and very low SES
• colonias and environmental pollution
Southwest TexasSouthwest Texas
• Also bicultural and Roman Catholic
• agricultural base -- sheep, goat, cattle
• also part of Texas border region or la frontera
• same problems as South Texas -- heavy dependence on Mexican economy
German Hill CountryGerman Hill Country
• European culture and flavor
• arts and crafts
• socially and politically conservative -- Texas republicanism
• encroachment of urban development from San Antonio and Austin
West TexasWest Texas
• Settled by Anglo population -- Fundamentalist Protestantism
• conservative Democrats; moderate Republicans
• large agricultural area--sheep, cattle, goats
• oil production (Midland and Odessa)
The PanhandleThe Panhandle
• Midwestern in character
• movement to secede from Texas (along with Oklahoma)
• social and political conservatism -- Republicans
• agricultural base -- cotton and grains
North TexasNorth Texas
• French socialist colony in Dallas -- distinctive character of area
• medicine, education, music, science
• Ft. Worth more like West Texas
• economy--defense, aerospace, electronics, aircraft; financial center
• Very urban character
• migration from Frost Belt areas
Central TexasCentral Texas
• Triangle -- Houston, Dallas-Ft. Worth, San Antonio
• Austin in center (State capitol) -- high tech industries; highly educated workforce
• San Antonio -- tourism, military, medical
• very diverse -- no single dominant trait
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