[Ditter]

I agree with what you said but the word TexiCan came out of a John Wayne movie. The old original settlers were called Texians, just ask my grandfather, he knew some of them. Oh wait........ you can't he was born in 1879 and died in 1962.

He talked to his grandchildren a lot about the “old Texians”.

[lentulusgracchus]

.....the word TexiCan came out of a John Wayne movie.

Out of two of them at least: Wayne (and Richard Boone, I think) used it in The Alamo and later on in True Grit, Wayne addressing Glen Campbell's character. Unless it was an ad-lib by Wayne, the term will have been used in the original novel, too. I'm sure it was heard from time to time in the 19th century.

There was a movie called The Texican in 1966 (Audie Murphy, Broderick Crawford).

Urban Dictionary:

A Texican is person of european decent in Texas. [Originally, an English-speaking colonist, = "Texian".] A Tejano is a person of hispanic decent in Texas.

But modern Tejanos also use the word "Texican" about themselves as well. So you can call them "Mexicans", "chicanos", "Texicans", and "Tejanos".

What I want to know is what all these true-blue Texafarians are going to do about those New Mexico fellers, Raul Grijalva and them no doubt, sending over Zozobra to burn up Big Tex?