We did not ‘’steal’’ the Southwest from Mexico. That’s utter bulls**t.
I did write some other things, though that could have tipped you off.
The fact is that Mexico showed little interest in her northern possessions with perhaps the exception of Texas. Central Mexico, the heartland can be a pleasant and prosperous place to live. As you travel north, the lands become deserts. Few Mexicans wanted to trade life in civilized and prosperous Mexico for a hardscrabble life on the northern frontier.
It’s easy to forget that Mexico despite being younger as a nation has a longer history. They had a university up and running 85 years before Harvard. And because of mineral wealth, Mexico was far wealthier than the 13 colonies. Our dollar was based on the coins issued by the Mexico City mint and Mexican ‘dollars’ were legal tender until the 1850s.
All of these advantages were negated by the crappy politics and politicians that Mexico has endured pretty much from its founding as a nation.
The irony is that gold was discovered in California, right as Mexico was in the midst of losing it militarily to a very small detachment of the U.S. Army. Utah being settled by Mormons ironically hoping to get out of the reach of the U.S. government. Nevada became a state early pretty much because of silver discoveries and Arizona/New Mexico weren’t admitted as states until 1912.
My apologies FRiend. As I said Mexican school children are taught they we ‘’stole’’ the Southwest from them and their mission is to ‘’out breed us’’ by popping out kids when they get here.
It infuriates me to no end how they’re given free health care, free education, how as native born Americans we have to “Press 1 for English’’. I never do. If you wait a few seconds while on the phone when this happens the English speaking voice comes back on.
In in light of the largess (or stupidity) in Americans being so generous in allowing these parasites access to OUR social welfare systems they pull $22 billion a year out of this nation’s economy and send it back to Mexico.