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The origins of Texas’s proud independent streak Tucker C. Toole © Photograph by Interim Archives, Getty Illustration showing Mexican Army troops attacking and scaling the walls of the Alamo, San Antonio, Texas, March 6, 1836. Published in Shinn s History of the American People, 1899. When Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced an end to the state’s mask mandate and other coronavirus restrictions on March 2, he drew criticism from across the nation and from leaders in several Texas cities. But Abbott also was making a point about Texans’ legendary tendency to go their own way: The governor’s announcement was on Texas Independence Day, the anniversary of the state’s declaration of independence from Mexico in 1836.

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