Editor's Note: This story was originally published March 2, 2018. Today is Texas Independence Day. You might be already in full celebration mode, plunging candles into pints of Blue Bell, swigging Pearl in a can and picking beans out of chili. If so, carry on, you’ve got this. But if you’re the sort who of person who passes by an elementary school and you are all ... “wait, IS that Texas flag upside-down?” Read on, we are here to help. Texas is large. That feller in Van Horn might not have a thing in common with this lady in Port Arthur. The hippies in Austin might not ever see eye-to-eye with the ranchers in Dalhart. But there’s a few things all Texans have in common — a shared terra firma — and you should know these things.