I’m not going anywhere, either-my ancestors came to Texas and NM from Mexico before 1800 to live farther away from the Spanish govt-hostile natives were apparently easier to live around as long as you were a good neighbor-they didn’t tax your belongings and take livestock every time their soldiers marched by your place...
I don’t think a lot of people whose ancestors were not from Texas-or somewhere else in the West or even some Southern states get what it means to have deep roots here-especially to those of us who are rural people...
It is still a part of our being. It is one thing to read history books, but oral family history is a much more credible learning tool. I grew up hearing those lessons and the way hard times were handled.
Leave us along to live our lives in peace and we will get along fine. If that is not satisfactory, we will deal with it.
May it ever be so.