🧵 We conducted research that maps the values-based attitudes, insights, and opinions of four segments of Texans as they relate to their identity as Texans:
• New Texans
• Mexican-Americans
• South-Asian Texans
• African-American Texans

Here's what we found 👇 1. Texas history matters. The unique Texas experience of frontier, war, and revolution inform all groups, but especially the Mexican-American and South-Asian groups, who admire the Alamo and the Texas Revolution and derive personal meaning from it. Most dissociated from that historical moment are the African-Americans, followed by the New Texans. We can hypothesize that the former is a function of rational reaction to history, and the latter a simple lack of education. Nevertheless the pull and attraction of Texas history is obvious here: the Mexican-Americans, putatively (in the left’s telling) the losers of those fights, positively endorse it in tremendous numbers; and the South Asians do as well, which we hypothesize is attractive to them as a comprehensible narrative of rights and dignity. One final note here: the Alamo is the centerpiece of all else, and therefore is the hinge upon which all the rest turns. It must be defended.