[Locomotive Breath]

My point is that all the things you mention as the origin of fights over Texas had nothing to do with the reason that modern Texas is valuable and that’s oil. Who gets rich with cattle ranching these days?

[af_vet_rr]

My point is that all the things you mention as the origin of fights over Texas had nothing to do with the reason that modern Texas is valuable and that’s oil.

My original point is that too much credit is given to Perry for Texas' economic success. It took two solid centuries of economic and population growth to get to where we are at, and yet we have idiots running around trying to claim that Texas success = Perry.

Who gets rich with cattle ranching these days?

Actually the agricultural industry, from the single-family farm, to the large corporate farming/ranching companies is huge. Because of all of these varied interests, Texas is able to weather a lot of the economic problems.