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Rodeo Historic Texans were: tall men who could die valiantly at the Alamo or San Jacinto but took orders with poor grace; Rangers who rode alone like paladins; cattlemen who held their ranges against wire and writs as stubbornly as any baron facing king's cannon; farmers who took their fami- lies to scratched out cornfields in the Post-Oak belt when it was Comanche country and lived by choice miles from every neighbor; statesmen like Sam Houston who damned and dared the popular fury — heroes in heroic times. The Texan ... is strongly individualistic and egalitarian, optimistic and provincial . .. He re- gards government as no more that a necessary evil ... and accepts violence as an appropriate solution to certain problems. Material wealth is much admired . . . Land has prestige . .. There is an easy acceptance of equality among one's own kind, but a rigid sense of superiority offer other local peo- 30
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pies, and a deep suspicion of outsiders ... The narrow moral strictures of Protestant fundamental- ism are accepted as an ideal moral code but certain covert violations are routinely tolerated (such as use of hard liquor), One might postulate that the Typical Texan of some future time will be a brown-skinned bilin- gual, Evangelical Catholic, whose values and pat- terns of life exhibit a happy harmony of individual freedom and the social good . .. Large and populous, booming, sharply prideful of a rich heritage, and narrowly parochica! in out- look, Texas is incessantly in love with its myths and images of gushers, Cadillacs, and invincible football teams. This breed early Texans did not lie, cheat, oppress the weak, discuss respectable women, or backbite.
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