Reply #37: Not all of Texas is as inbred as the Eastern section... [View All]

[Bridget Burke]

What about the indigenous people--not all gone yet... What about the Spanish (later Mexicans)--the earliest European setters? The Germans & other Central European settlers included Catholics & agnostic intellectuals, along with several types of Protestant. What about the African-Americans? And what about the numerous groups from all over the world who continue to settle our big cities?

Break your engagement to your first cousin--even if that is a century-long tradition in your family. Move to Austin or San Antonio or even Big Houston & learn that there's more to Texas--& the South--than one historian's opinion. (Yes,I heard about that book.)

The current gang politicizing religion may have historical roots. But they also are part of a recent movement that can & should be opposed.