Ever speculate curiously why the Texas economy keeps flourishing while the rest of the Nation is still clawing its way out of downturn? Ever speculate curiously why a place that is known for oil wildcatters and cattle rustlers in the nation’s wind-vitality leader and has thumped Silicon Valley off its cutting edge platform? Ever ask why Californians and also New Yorkers are moving to Texas by the thousand and carrying their investments with them? For writer-businessman Sam and Andrew Wyly, the appropriate response is crystal clear in the book called “Texas Got It Right” published on October 16, 2012 by Melcher Media and foreword by Walter Isaacson. What’s more, exhausted, over-managed states like California, New York, and Illinois missed the
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Another reason is it my favorite because, there are many and as well different nations from around the world settled in the state of Texas. The maps seemed to support author’s mention about different nations being settled in Texas. For example, within those boundaries lie 11 nations, each with its own distinctive set of values and political leanings. I felt that Mr Wyly did great job by listing all the nations one by one and in different areas of Texas. Also he did not forget to mention political views and cultural of those people who settled on East, on the Deep South, and on the Far West. With Texas being as big as it is you had the greater Appalachia running thru it, which was an independent minded Scots-Irish. Most of the families that came in the greater Appalachia they came in great numbers. The greater Appalachia filtered down from the famed Natchez Trace from Pennsylvanian, Ohio, Kentucky, and also Tennessee. The Scots-Irish of the greater Appalachia set the feisty character of the republic and of the state that followed, but they were not the only European group to have an impact on Texas. In the 1840’s Germans came in the town of Fredericksburg and made a German speaking belt that went across much of the state. Czechs and Poles followed alone as well, people managed to preserve their language and folkways for a few generations, but Texas soon change them. Carved from the bosom of Mexico, Texas gave rise to a hybrid culture that caught on like no other. The culture was a self-selecting culture that brought out the best traits of each group that settled in Texas from the greater
Another reason is it my favorite because, there are many and as well different nations from around the world settled in the state of Texas. The maps seemed to support author’s mention about different nations being settled in Texas. For example, within those boundaries lie 11 nations, each with its own distinctive set of values and political leanings. I felt that Mr Wyly did great job by listing all the nations one by one and in different areas of Texas. Also he did not forget to mention political views and cultural of those people who settled on East, on the Deep South, and on the Far West. With Texas being as big as it is you had the greater Appalachia running thru it, which was an independent minded Scots-Irish. Most of the families that came in the greater Appalachia they came in great numbers. The greater Appalachia filtered down from the famed Natchez Trace from Pennsylvanian, Ohio, Kentucky, and also Tennessee. The Scots-Irish of the greater Appalachia set the feisty character of the republic and of the state that followed, but they were not the only European group to have an impact on Texas. In the 1840’s Germans came in the town of Fredericksburg and made a German speaking belt that went across much of the state. Czechs and Poles followed alone as well, people managed to preserve their language and folkways for a few generations, but Texas soon change them. Carved from the bosom of Mexico, Texas gave rise to a hybrid culture that caught on like no other. The culture was a self-selecting culture that brought out the best traits of each group that settled in Texas from the greater