Oh, really?! That must be why Robert E. Lee stood in his stirrups at Spottsylvania Court House and called out, when he saw Hood's Texans going by, "The Texans always move them!"
Must be why Sam Houston and David Crockett were from Tennessee, and William Barrett Travis was from South Carolina.
It also explains the presence of the New Orleans Greys at the Alamo, and why many score of thousands of Texans wore butternut and gray in dozens of battles all over the South, and why the last battle of the Civil War, a Confederate victory, was fought in Texas at the mouth of the Rio Grande.
That must be it.
Um, sorry, but I was talking in present terms not what happened many years ago.
But, Texans fought in the Confederate Army? Good for them.
Sam Houston and David Crockett went from Tennessee to Texas to help defend a fledgling nation? Good for them.
My remark was not meant to be unkind in nature. I meant it as a compliment. If you did not take it as such then I apologize for my poor words causing your misunderstanding. I view Texas and its people as an entity onto itself. I would be proud if somebody from outside my state viewed it that way but it is not so.