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Greek Revival and Victorian styles led in time to folk versions. Hispanic building customs did not change so much. They derived the idea of porches from Anglo neighbors. In the hot climate of Texas, where there was little snow, settlers from Central and Northern Europe soon lowered their rooflines and enlarged the number and size of windows. These groups brought building customs with them but often changed their traditions as a result of the new physical environment, of the influence of new neighbors, and of changing styles in formal architecture. Chinese, Japanese, and Africans came, the last mostly as slaves, to round out the nineteenth-century cultural confluence. French came both from Louisiana and directly from Europe. Germans, Czechs, Poles, Norwegians, and Swedes settlers came directly from Europe, and Europeans of all sorts came who had first sojourned elsewhere in North American. Anglos-here meaning English, Scots-Irish, and assimilated Germans-moved into the state from cultural regions centered in the Upper South and the Tidewater region. Each cultural group that inhabits Texas brought its own ideas of proper forms, materials, and styles for buildings, and many cultures flow together in Texas, as the HemisFair '68 theme proclaimed.
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