An answer and a point.
Reference how much I miss it? I miss it all to include field time and deployments down range and into harms way.
Second: Tejas is often confused with being 'southern' via their inclusion in the ACW. Tejas has never been southern or at best a faux southern in the SE and eastern wood country sections in a minor sense as a result of the production of cotton and association with the plantation system of production.
It is physically the southern most extension of the central great plains region of the US; with a variety of eco and geo conditions and climates that separate it from the gulf coast south for example.. and has always had a more demonstrative 'western' character and still does.
If anything it represented at formation.... far more Spanish-Mexicans and Indians culture then than any other and that was decidedly not southern. Its original 'old three hundred' came from many places to include Conneticut and Ohio and the border states of Missouri and Kentucky; all of which were associated with expansionism of the American continent and at one point or another were id' as western. This even included SF Austin's home in SW Virginia.
Southern I am not.
A multi national mestizo from the Llano I am.
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