What are the states known for when people think about a specific state? What is the first thing
that comes to mind an event a location activity a person we all have preconceived ideas vibes
and experiences about different places towns cities and states countries even i asked a simple
question on facebook the community tab on youtube and i did a google survey where i asked what is
texas known for there were about 25 different things that kept popping up more than any other
ones in today's video i'm going to list the top 10 and i'm going to do a little deep dive into
each one of those i'll also add some of the ones that didn't make the top 10 towards the end of the
video so stick around for that so that's what we're doing today we're taking a look at texas
got it get it good let's take a look number 10 barbecue so this is in no particular order but
barbecue is just texas i mean texas is known for barbecue there are other places that are known for
barbecue but mostly they're cities like kansas city barbecue nashville is known for barbecue
st louis even lexington north carolina but the entire state of texas is known for barbecue and
it's not just a summer thing like you'd find in california barbecue gets served
pretty much for every occasion parties marriages funerals graduations christmas it's a way of
life in many parts of texas in different parts of texas they're kind of known for different types of
barbecue central texas barbecue is when the meat is given a dry rub with spices and cooked over
oak wood using indirect heat east texas is known for slow cook barbecue south texas uses thick
dripping sauce west texas barbecue they always use mesquite wood some people say the four categories
of meat are cowboy meat market east texas and mexican barbacoa number nine the friendship state
so that is very true here in texas people are very friendly even though texas like state name
is the lone star state they have a reputation for being very friendly and inclusive a few
years back there was a study about the different stereotypes from the different states according to
the survey native texans are the most genuine friendly people you will ever meet on average
in 2019 texas was ranked fourth in the nation for being one of the friendliest states
number eight country music yeah i could totally see that one the state's famous for traditional
singers like george jones waylon jennings willie nelson barbara mandrell these were
all household names in the 1950s 60s and 70s and are often referred to as classic country
that's just scratching the very surface of that there are too many great country western
singers to even get into in this video and they all seem to write songs about texas too
take me to texas god bless texas yellow rosa texas if you're gonna play in texas blame it on texas
and texas on my mind country music from texas has been popular since the spread of the whole
cowboy thing in the late 1800s but yeah texas and country music that's a no-brainer
number seven the alamo everybody knows about the alamo and everybody knows it has a basement
that's filled with stolen bicycles the alamo is located in san antonio i was there just
i don't know maybe seven eight months ago and this is one of the most well-known monuments in
the state of texas remember the alamo is a famous cry from the texas revolution against mexico now
the alamo was built by the spanish in 1744 and was originally made up of a sanctuary and surrounding
buildings they basically used it for educating native americans about the catholic religion
and christianity in february of 1936 the mexican army started a siege on the alamo for 13 days
they blocked off the water supply through the irrigation ditches that led into the complex the
siege ended on march 6 when the mexicans were victorious in the battle of the alamo this was
a very historic battle in the texas revolution over 4 million people visit the alamo every year
number 6 the dallas cowboys here's another easy one i would have thought this right away
even if i wasn't a football fan i'm not a fan of the dallas cowboys but i know most people
associate texas with the dallas cowboys the cowboys are one of the most well-known sports
teams in the world of any sport the dallas cowboy franchise was granted on january 28th 1960 they've
won five super bowls which ties them for third place with the san francisco 49ers they're also
the wealthiest team in the nfl it's estimated that their value is about four billion dollars number
five nasa in the space program yep everybody knows houston texas is known as rocket city it played
a big part in the space race back in the 1960s and it continues to stop typing i'm just kidding
it's not rocket city it's actually considered space city that's their nickname rocket city is
actually huntsville alabama all right be honest who was leaving the comment anyway texas has a
long history with nasa and the space race everyone knows those famous words houston we have a problem
this is a famous but slightly off quotation from a radio communication between apollo 13 astronauts
and nasa mission control in houston he said houston we have a problem but really he didn't
say that the actual quote is okay houston we've had a problem here not much of a difference but i
have to bring it up or somebody else will in the comments section i don't know if it's still the
same way but if your payment didn't go through on netflix you got an email that read houston we have
a problem webster texas is home to the johnson space center and has the air flight control center
for the nasa space program the space center has a hundred buildings and constructed on
1600 acres in the clear lake area of houston and that's how it got its nickname space city in 1967.
number four the sanyu centro monument is located on the side of the last battle fought in the
war for texas independence and stands taller than the washington monument in washington dc
after some texas shenanigans that's right texas wanted this monument and they wanted to be really
tall but the federal government was giving up some money for it so they said fine you just
can't be taller than the washington monument so what texas did they submitted the plans for
the senocentro monument and they didn't include the base so the federal government signed off on
this thing well then texas went along and added a base to the bottom of the monument that made it
taller than the washington monument everything's bigger in texas it is about 16 miles east of
downtown houston and the monument is topped with the 220 ton star that commemorates the site of
the battle of san jacinto it was built between 1936 and 1939 and dedicated on april 21st 1939
it is the world's tallest masonry column by comparison the washington monument is 554.612
feet which is the tallest stone monument in the world visitors can actually take an
elevator up to the top of this thing the monument was completed in exactly three
years and cost only 1.5 million dollars that would be close to 32 million in today's money
number three the jfk assassination president john f kennedy was assassinated on november 22 1963 at
12 30 p.m while riding in a motorcade in dallas during a campaign visit the president was taken to
parkland memorial hospital but was pronounced dead at 1 pm he was shot in the neck and head he was
only 46 years old by 2 15 lee harvey oswald a new employee at the book depository was arrested for
the jfk assassination two days later on november 24th oswald was murdered by local nightclub owner
and police informant jack ruby at point blank range on live television who let the dude in there
now everyone knows all these things there's a lot of conspiracies that go along with it
and i think my favorite thing i've seen in a long time is just last year not a few months back maybe
some of those q anon people they all gathered there and they thought president kennedy's son
was going to come back from the dead and lead the country he's been dead for 20 years but he
was gonna come back to life or he was hiding on a deserted island and he was coming back to dealey
plaza to lead the country the right direction yeah it's a thing but for many people that's the first
thing they think about when they think about texas that's kind of strange i think that one i don't
get i mean it's very important and it's a you know horrific event in american history but i don't
associate it really with texas you know even though it happened there i guess i should say
i can think of so many more things i would think of before i would think of the jfk assassination
number two oil the discovery of oil in 1901 at the spindle top field in beaumont texas was the
beginning of the texas oil boom that stretches to today yeah they're still pulling oil out of the
ground in texas on january 10 1901 an enormous geyser of oil exploded from a drilling site at
spindletop hill a mound created by an underground salt deposit located near beaumont in jefferson
county in southeastern texas this thing reached a height of about 150 feet into the air and produced
close to a hundred thousand barrels a day these days texas produces about a million barrels a day
a little bit over the drilling began at spindle top in october of 1900 and by early january 1901
they had reached the depth of 1 000 feet oil kind of pushed this country in the
right direction the abundance of oil found in texas would go on to fuel the expansion of
shipping and rail industries as well as the development of new innovations for the time
like automobiles and airplanes that came around a little later these days texas is very much an
energy not just oil it's a very much an energy state but a lot of people got rich on oil in texas
over the decades the oil in texas has been talked about in movies documentaries books
songs and even claymation yeah one time uh gumby went out to texas and he hit oil it was weird
all right before we get to number one here's a few that didn't make the top 10 that are pretty
important san antonio spurs the basketball team from san antonio the san antonio river walk was
brought up a lot not a person place or thing but i guess a state of mind a lot of people kept saying
bigotry uh i don't get it i've never got that from texas maybe their politicians have made some
decisions that give them that vibe but the people aren't like that i've never really picked up on
that now saying that i'm sure there's tons of examples anyone can give if something like that
happened but in my experience it's not like that but everyone's got other experiences chili showed
up a lot the heat little catch phrases like don't mess with texas cowboy boots and rodeos
those also showed up but not as much as the 10 on this list which i think is strange i would
have put rodeos in between sanya central monument myself all right for number one don't forget we
have another channel called on this day there's a link down below all right on to number one
and number one ranching and cattle that's right one thing texas is truly known for
is ranches and longhorn cattle you see longhorn cattle and you instantly think of texas university
of texas is called the longhorns cattle ranching has been around for centuries
and it all started when christopher columbus introduced spanish cattle to santo domingo now
known as the dominican republic it obviously eventually made its way to the united states
mainland and now it's big business another one of those things that really helped move
this country along texas has over 130 million acres of land dedicated to farming the texas
cattle industry has more acres of farmland than 48 states in total size the cattle industry
provides about 12 billion in revenue by cash receipt each year fourteen percent of texans
one out of every seven roughly is working in a job that is related to agriculture in some way
yeah but those longhorn cattle that's just a weird looking animal i mean those horns are just amazing
all right that's today's video let me know in the comment section below which
one you'd like to see next everybody have a great day be nice to each other