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To: mainsail that

Must be nice to have a phony holiday. Maybe Texas should celebrate “Texacan Day”. That will be a cold day in hell.


7 posted on 05/19/2010 10:37:03 AM PDT by RC2
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To: RC2
Maybe Texas should celebrate “Texacan Day”.

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Tejanos - Hispanic Texans, or Tejanos, had supported the movement for Mexican independence, and they likewise endorsed the creation of a federal republic in the 1820s.

Texican - A native Texan of Mexican descent.

Texian - Texian is a name for an immigrant from the United States and countries other than Mexico who became residents in the Tejas and Coahuila areas of Mexico, much of which later would be called Texas.

11 posted on 05/19/2010 10:51:24 AM PDT by cbkaty (Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy---W Churchill)
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