Quote Originally Posted by Chris Webb
We Texans bitch the same way about every movie ever made about the Alamo. I don't care how 'historically accurate' any director ever gets it Texans will never be satisfied, NEVER!

Of course, given that 70% of Texas counties are named for Scot-Texans it should come as no surprise that we act just like Scots do when regarding William Wallace.

Wallace, Travis, what's the difference ... two men who somehow embody all that cannot be fully depicted regarding the deep seated fighting spirit of both our peoples.

Scotland, like Texas, like it or not is just a part of a greater nation ... both countries, for reasons eternally debated, now permanently merged with the irrepressable power house next door.

Texans still dream of the old Republic of Texas ... but had the Republic of Texas ever been so grand as our dreams have made it then it would never had joined the United States to begin with.

Still, like Scotland, Texas will never, ever be so immersed in it's parent nation to lose it's own identity, it's own traditions, it's own garb, food, music ... no, Texas will remain suspended in the past, floating in our minds like some dream that refuses to stop once you are awake.

Scots remember Wallace ...

Texans, well, we Remember the Alamo!!!!

Yeee Haawwwww.

Chris Webb
Chris,

The latest version of the Alamo came pretty darn close -- and most of that was due to the fact that the movie folks actually listened to respected historians like Bruce Winders, curator of the Alamo, and Stephen Hardin, author of the best (INMHO) book on the Texas Revolution, "Texian Illiad". It had it's problems, but overall, it's come the closest so far.

But you are quite right about the Texas-Scottish connections; after all, there was a piper at the Alamo, Sgt. John McGregor, who reportedy had musical "duels" with an Ulster-Scot named Crockett, and several Texian songs of the period were to the tunes of "Scots Wha Hae" and "Auld Lang Syne".

End OT...

Cheers (Y'all),

Todd