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To be fair. Texas is Texas; not the south. At least that’s what my Texas History teacher told me in the state mandated class.
by dghlsakjg 5y ago
To be fair. Texas is Texas; not the south.
At least that’s what my Texas History teacher told me in the state mandated class.
- sandworm101 5y agoI'd bet he would be screaming mad about which side Texas is of the Mason-Dixen line. By my eye Texas is not part of the north.
- hajile 5y agoIt fought for the Confederacy, but in the first couple battles took such catastrophic losses that it was effectively out of the war. From what I remember, it was different from other Southern states in that a large minority of settlers weren’t southerners and held the relatively new religious Northern idea that slavery was evil. Southern Democrats were still the majority and the Democrats were holding the threat of succession and violence against Republicans to force concessions about slavery (eg, the Missouri Compromise).
- dghlsakjg 5y agoAlso the state legislature voted overwhelmingly to secede and join the Confederacy citing wanting to keep slavery as one of the primary causes for seceding. It seems pretty cut and dry to me now, but this man was an intimidating teacher, and I was a quiet kid...
- DoreenMichele 5y agoOne history book I read spent like an entire chapter on the topic of how to define The South. Some people include Texas in their definition of The South and some don't. There are multiple states that people have this argument about. Humorously, Florida is another such state.
- xeromal 5y agoYup, it's definitely not an obvious definition. I grew up in GA and the people around me always saw it as appalachia south of the Mason-Dixon line. Texas was kind of a mixture. Same with Louisiana though less so than texas. The joke for Florida was that the further south you went the more north you'd end up.