Posted on 05/01/2015 10:23:11 AM PDT by pinochet
Back then, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the USA gave Mexico millions in GOLD to give up all claim to such lands. Mexico agreed. Several years later, we paid Mexico even more gold to give up the Gadsden Purchase area.
Mexico again agreed and now has NO CLAIM to the regions of the USA.
Bttt.
Yes, years ago.
Max Rafferty, Gov. Reagan’s education commissioner, said that “I got a lot of letters suggesting that I go off somewhere and perform a biological impossibility.”
No, that's just the number of undocumented Guatemalan kids.
Many people are ignorant of history. They don't realize that there were many anglos living in California among the natives and Spanish (and Russians), and most didn't give a hoot about Mexico. Mexico had control for a while, if you can call it control (California was largely ignored by the Mexicans). The Spanish here in California worked with the anglos to declare independence from Mexico. General Mariano Vallejo played a large part by wanting California to become part of the USA, and became part of the new government, built a new capital in Vallejo named after him. Californians gladly became part of the USA. Also, California was not taken away, it was paid for after the war by treaty, where the USA paid almost $20 million to Mexico for territories lost. Which was a pretty good deal for Mexico, having lost the war they caused.
“The rest of America seemed to be like third world countries when compared to California.”
BS
Yeah, gee ansel12, everything was hunky dorry in your imagined “California-white-Protestant-paradise” until the hispanics showed up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_riots
Trend-setters maybe. Arbiters of "civilized standards?" In California? You must be high.
They should have stayed in Nebraska.
so what was wrong with tuition free JC’s I only had to pay for books and fee’s. Before WW2 how much did uncle sugar pay the defense “industry” ??
I’d say since around 1970, as the entertainment industry that is anchored there started hating the USA. If you want a pivotal event - Jane Fonda in Viet Nam.
Individually, celebrites mean nothing. Collectively, they have had a tremendous influence and not a positive one.
I was a young adult during the 80’s in the LA area too. Somehow as a single woman living alone with my dogs, I was able to purchase two homes in nice suburban neighborhoods in the city of Santa Clarita.
I don’t know any young woman now who can even dream of that.
LOL
Maybe so.
But LA was a paradise for about a century, Chinatown movies notwithstanding!
San Gabriel Valley and Orange County in particular.
There’s still peeps in Nebraska. Nice farms, most still the same ones they rented/bought/homesteaded in the 1860’s/70’s.
Tuesday night, my Jewish husband and I (Catholic) attended an event in which Dennis Prager was the keynote speaker. It was to promote the very brave and lone voice in the wilderness, Christians United For Israel organization in Tucson.
This morning, he and I spoke about being much beholden to the Evangelical Christians / Protestants for this country.
Vallejo is an unknown hero. He was a real European liberal, what we now call "conservative".
Don't know that he gave up 250,000 acres in Sonoma all that willingly but he definitely wanted to be free and work with the Americans.
Treated badly at first but eventually regained his respect from the Anglo Californians.
And the US moving forces into the disputed Nueces Strip had nothing to do with it. Interestingly, the US had, 6 months earlier, tried to buy the Strip from Mexico, which would seem to be a concession that they didn't already own it.
Interesting spin you put on things, as FR’s most angry poster, most of us think that California has gone down hill since then.
There will never be another nation like what America was.
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