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Southern Texas is widely regarded as the hearth of American livestock ranching. Here the distinctive southeastern (English, African-American, and Scots) livestock raising traditions met up with the singular and established Hispanic modes of livestock culture. What was produced was a hybrid that, during the Civil War years, made it possible for huge numbers of animals to be moved north and east to ready and waiting eastern markets. In the heart of this country of South Texas is Hebbronville, an area still predominantly Hispanic, but with a proportion of white, Anglo-American owned ranches. The economies are not exactly thriving, as this suggests.
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