From Texas Co-op Power:Christmas traditions vary from country to country, state to state and family to family, but all have the same purpose: to spread joy during the holiday season. While traditions like baking cookies and decorating Christmas trees are common across the U.S., every state, including Texas, has its own unique traditions. Here are a few Texas Christmas traditions you can look forward to throughout the holiday season.
Cowboy Santa and His Longhorns
The most common Texas Christmas tradition is Cowboy Santa. Images and decorations of Santa Claus with a cowboy hat and cowboy boots can be seen throughout the state. And of course, Cowboy Santa uses longhorns instead of reindeer to pull his sleigh.
Barbecue Feasts
If you know anything about Texas, you know that we like our barbecue. Because of the warm weather in much of the state throughout the holiday season, it is common for Texans to spend their holiday time off barbecuing meats for Christmas dinners. Smoked turkey is a popular main course.
Christmas Pyramids
Influenced by German culture, lighting a Christmas pyramid, or a weihnachtspyramide, during the holidays has become a Texas tradition. Illuminated every November in Fredericksburg, you can find a 26-foot-tall, handcrafted Christmas pyramid on display for all to see.
A new tradition in Texas is elaborately decorated Christmas trucks. Across the state you can find pickup trucks decorated with wreaths, antlers and Christmas lights. Many cities even host pickup truck parades featuring these lighted trucks.
Elaborate displays of luminarias—paper lanterns—can be seen across the state during the Christmas season. Some believe the lights guide the spirit of the Christ child to their home.
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The glowing brown sacks that adorn Albuquerque walkways, churches and homes each holiday season are called luminarias and date back more than 300 years. The New Mexican tradition began when the Spanish villages along the Rio Grande displayed the unique and easy to make Christmas lanterns, called luminarias to welcome the Christ child into the world. A traditional luminaria is a brown paper bag, which has been folded at the top, filled will a couple cups of sand and a votive candle.
Located just 30 minutes south of Fort Worth, Texas, you’ll find Cleburne, Texas, a charming small town worthy of a day trip or weekend getaway. Established in 1867, Cleburne was once a stop along the historic Chisholm Trail, as it was a watering hole for cattle and thirsty drovers too. In the late 1800s after the railroad came to town, Cleburne boomed as a transportation center, connecting smaller towns and larger cities.
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