Are enough Americans left in Kalifornia to pull it off?
Man, doesn't THAT sound like history repeating itself 160 years later?
"Payback, eet ees a beetch, senor."
}:-)4
Let’s remember that Mexico was stolen from the Indians by the Spanish.
Though nominally controlled by the U.S.A., California was home to only a relatively small number of Gringos. Citizens of Mexico made up the largest segment of the California population, and their numbers were quickly growing.
Americans worried that many Mexican settlers were not truly interested in becoming U.S. citizens and would soon push for annexation of California to Mexico,
But their political leaders, both in California and Washington, told them that they were a bunch of racist bigots, who couldn't understand that the illegal immigrants who broke U.S. immigration laws were law abiding people whe merely lacked documentation
(I had a hard time understanding that one myself),
And anyway the political leaders had their own interests to protect--in other words: "To hell with the American people!" "To hell with law!" "In fact--To hell with the U.S.A.!"
Though nominally controlled by the U.S.A., California was home to only a relatively small number of Gringos. Citizens of Mexico made up the largest segment of the California population, and their numbers were quickly growing.
Americans worried that many Mexican settlers were not truly interested in becoming U.S. citizens and would soon push for annexation of California to Mexico,
But their political leaders, both in California and Washington, told them that they were a bunch of racist bigots, who couldn't understand that the illegal immigrants who broke U.S. immigration laws were law abiding people whe merely lacked documentation
(I had a hard time understanding that one myself),
And anyway the political leaders had their own interests to protect--in other words: "To hell with the American people!" "To hell with law!" "In fact--To hell with the U.S.A.!"
