Was Sam Houston’s grace with the common man and vocal opposition to slave owners the main reason Texas escaped a pit of underdevelopment that plagued the rest of the South?
Was Sam Houston’s grace with the common man and vocal opposition to slave owners the main reason Texas escaped a pit...
Oliver Morales
Jeremiah Nelson
Think it has more to do with oil and a lower percentage of negroes
Connor Nelson
Texas was a shithole of a state until they discovered oil in the plains and in the gulf.
Thomas Smith
There were vocal slave owners against secession, too.
Jaxson Kelly
Texas is the Saudi Arabia of North America. It's entire economy is based on oil. The rest of the south is a shithole simply because it never recovered from the civil war. Texas was the same till oil was discovered.
It's probably the only state that could separate from the union and not collapse. tbqh.
Alexander Taylor
>Texas is the Saudi Arabia of North America. It's entire economy is based on oil.
>t. time traveller from 1979
Oil's collapsed a few times, user. Texas just decided to use its oil money to diversify the economy.
Robert Peterson
Texas wasn't hurt by the civil war much, they barely even participated.
Also this, something the Saudis are apparently too low IQ to do.
Elijah Jones
Yancucks feared the Chad Texans during they short stint battling
Caleb Cook
While that may be a part, it's mainly because oil is just so fucking cheap to extract in Saudi Arabia they don't see the point. They have SO much profit their greed makes them shortsighted. Brainlet-tier, no doubt. But they didn't have the shock Texas had in the early 80s to jolt them into diversifying, and now if they do receive that jolt there's a non-negilible chance their entire country will collapse into civil war before they can diversify
Ryan Lee
that's a ridiculous bowtie