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How People Learn About Texas

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(May 11, 2010, Mauro Luna/Flickr)

From 1812 to the 1980’s, Texas has had a place in America’s popular imagination. But so often those characterizations have struggled to contain the many multitudes that Texas has to offer. Many have been flat out wrong.

In this episode of Rambling Boy, Historian Lonn Taylor takes a look back at the many misconceptions people have had about the “Lone Star” state and where they spring from.

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