You DO know that if it wasn’t for a couple of Tennesseans (David Crockett and Samuel Houston) Texas would be North Mexico today.....
That's quite true. But the first huge influx of Americans into the Republic of Texas came from the Deep South thru the "Gateway of Texas", Nacogdoches. My family came to Texas in 1839. Originally from South Carolina, they came here from Alabama.
Most of my paternal ancestors are buried in Nacogdoches County and I will be too...