To: PhiKapMom
A lot of that part of Texas is German. And Czech and Polish. That's one of the reasons Texas is different than the South. The white population of the South was overwhelmingly British, Scottish, and Scots-Irish. Texas has has substantial German and Eastern Euorpean immigration ever since the 1830s.
15 posted on
09/06/2003 9:07:19 PM PDT by
Paleo Conservative
(Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
To: Paleo Conservative
A lot of that part of Texas is German. And Czech and Polish.Yep, the Texas State Flag is just a Polish flag with the blue field and lone star added to it. The first Polish settlement in the US was in Panna Maria, which is just south of San Antonio.
66 posted on
09/07/2003 5:31:50 AM PDT by
dfwgator
To: Paleo Conservative
The story in central texas is that a peice of land on which an englishman would go broke on, a german could make a living on, and a czech could get rich on.
To: Paleo Conservative
95 posted on
08/26/2007 10:58:11 PM PDT by
Centurion2000
(“Jesus Saves. Moses Delivers. Cthulu Reposesses...”)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson