[MeanWestTexan]

Just point out that Santa Anna was such a corrupt POS the Mexicans themselves tried to kill him.

Also worth noting, probably 1/4 of the Texicans were native Mexicans who fled persecution of Mexico because they were Protestant or Jewish, which was legal in Texas, but illegal in Mexico.

That is, until Santa Anna wanted to bring the Mexican Inquisition north for his own political purposes.

It was a fight for religious freedom just as much as an effort to get out from the thumb of a brutal dictator.

[Texan5]

A lot of people don’t realize Texas and New Mexico were being populated with people distancing themselves from the Spanish-and after 1821- the Mexican government-both were oppressive and greedy-just an arm of the government they brought over from Spain with them. Plenty of us here and in NM have ancestors who left Mexico prior to the 1800’s to escape that tyranny...

[hanamizu]

Just point out that Santa Anna was such a corrupt POS the Mexicans themselves tried to kill him.

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He was presidente four times I believe. And each time he was overthrown. He cost Mexico a third of its territory during three of his terms: 1836: Texas, 1848: California & New Mexico Terr., 1853: Gadsen Purchase. But like a deranged Mexican Engergizer Bunny, he just kept coming back. During one overthrow the people dug up his buried leg and drug it through the streets.