you're dealing with the first-generation texans of the stephen austin group that had t have guns, heado protect thei homestead, that had to be very worried about comanche attacks and marauders and slaughter, so they formed a fierce identity and sense of community in texas that started growing. >> the culture begins to change and especially in east texas because there hasn't been very many spaniards or mexicans they are. >> by 1830, four out of every five people living in texas we're from america it was becoming less and less mexican stronghold. >> they were happy because they were on their own beer and. >> led by mexico again and there's independence from spain. santa ana now sought to destroy texas quest to find independenc themselves. these guys we're on their own and ready to fight. >> the idea of liberty is very important. what they mean by liberty is what had come out of the american revolution and such is that liberty to have input into our government, and so what the are saying is we are no longer for what the changes that are happening. santa ana and that supporters, they are a

what i would think, i used to teach it texas a&m, and it's pretty much on the same at the stephen austin travel get . what you see is nothing like that. [laughing] what you see is rolling countryside and you can tell especially in the bottomlands it's very fertile. what austin with sink was land that was beautiful from the perspective of somebody who was a farmer, is going to make his living growing step out of this ground. that was the promise of the west. in fact, this is, i don't go in too much for counterfactual historical tales, but if the united states had not acquired the trans-mississippi west, let sit until 1900, then its history would've been very different because, and i do this exercise with my students. so from 1776, the founding of the united states, until, well, for the next each generation for the next 80 years, the land of the meat of the united states doubles in size but at the end of the revolution of what the tread it gets each an half of the mississippi river and in 1803 louisiana purchase, the western western half of the mississippi valley. and then the section for

so when stephen austin arrived in texas, in the early 18 hundreds, he kept a direct journal. he comes across the river and he comes into texas and he goes through region, and then to brian and all of the way to san antonio. any has this talk and eventually he goes all the way to mexico city. so i was reading his prior diary and he used the word beautiful to describe the land that he was saying. he used often. this puzzled me because as i say, i grew up with natural beauty, is rocky mountain. our snow-covered fountain. this very deep lake or something like that. i would drive to austin a lot and is pretty much on the same route the stephen austin traveled in what you is nothing like that. [laughter]. what you see is rolling countryside and you can tell especially here in the bottomlands, it is very fertile. and he saw land that was beautiful from the perspective of somebody who was a farmer. he can make his living undergoing stuff out of the spout. so that was the promise of the west. in fact, i don't go in too much in counterfactual historical tales but, if the united states

stephen: did you ever wait or bartender? >> mm-hmm. waited and ba bartended. i worked at catfish station in austin on sixth street. ues until 2:30 a.m. every night. >> stephen: were you a good wait center. >> not as good as the queen waitress tammy. i tried to beat her in tips every night, and after $144 nights, i got as close as four bucks from her. >> stephen: everybody should be in the service industry because you learn, well, how the do a job, how not to answer in kind if somebody is rude to you, just take care of the customer, and then you know how to be nice to people when you're the customer. >> aren't we all learning it a little bit right now? >> stephen: i hope so. look around the house, i'm doing a lot more serving. i know my kids are doing a lot more serving and cleaning up, too. a lot more cooking. >> stephen: i'm doing a lot more serving. >> yes, sir. yeah, it is a great job to have. i've always loved people and cultures and, you know, when i waited tables for two and a half years, that kept $45 cash in my back pockets, i could go on a date on the weekend or maybe play a round of golf in there, put sup

richard alba and a professor named stephen trejo at the university of texas in austin has looked at latino assimilation with intermarriage. latinos lose spanish is the primary language and marry outside of their group as the german-americans and the polish americans in the german-americans do. i would go further and say the suppose it determination of politics is drastically -- we have this 90-10 pattern 90% of the democrats and temper some of the republicans. it is polarized including asian-americans and hispanic americans and non-hispanic whites. non-hispanic whites are very divided with hillary clinton and donald trump. so it's not polarized in that sense. in my home state of texas 40% went for governor abbott and 29% voted for donald trump. if you're polarization is not 50-50 that's polarized but it's not enormous with polarized. >> to want to shift the discussion to one of the criticism of the populace and the people who have populist politics and i'm not saying that's what you're doing here is that oh you're just shutting the system and he don't advocate for anything and you don't wa

marilyn buck was the daughter of a veterinarian turned priest in austin, texas where she was brought up, went to saint stephen's private episcopal school and was submitted to brown but decided to go to berkeley and came back to the university of texas. wound up in a circus route to the west coast. the only weight member of the black liberation army and she was a quartermaster buying guns, a nice white episcopal gal from texas less likely to raise suspicion and was able to buy weapons in multiple states, got picked up in 1973 from buying 1000 rounds of ammunition using fake id. to men's federal prison in west virginia. again, this is simpler and more innocent time, federal prisoners were allowed that, she got a furlough to visit her parents who moved to galveston, came back and in 1977 got a second furlough to visit her lawyer in new york, bolt cutters were smuggled into help more outs escape. she gets a 6-day furlough, never comes back. she was not captured until 1985. a second person, susan rosenberg, a graduate of a private school attended barnard, a fascinating character in her own right. memoirs came out a