Did she learn that there were many Mexicans in and around San Antonio who sided with the Texicans and wanted to be Texicans, not subjects of Mexico?
On the other hand, she is somewhat right in that many of the people at the Alamo (and surrounding areas) were recent arrivals who came looking for cheap land.
I’m sure she’d be thrilled if it were still part of Mexico, and watching people all around her getting their heads cut off from the drug lords.
. . . or volunteers from Tennessee.
Because you don’t seem to know this, there were virtually no Spanish colonists or “Mexicans” in Texas in 1836 and before. Central Mexico was beautiful, agriculturally productive, lacked Apaches and Commanches, etc. People liked living there; it was civilized. Mexico City, for example, had had a university for centuries by the early 19th century.
Because their “claim” to territory north of the Rio Grande was just an assertion, the governments in Mexico City went through scheme after scheme to try lure settlers north of the Rio Grande and failed time after time. That is why they finally gave Austin and other Americans huge incentives to bring Americans here. The actual number of Spanish/Mexicans north of the Rio Grande in 1830 wouldn’t even populate a decent sized Houston subdivision, and most of the Spanish/Mexicans north of the Rio Grande were concentrated relatively near the river.
BTW, there were also very few Indians, especially in areas west of the rainfall line that runs through Houston. Why? Because it semi-arid or desert. Without advanced European civilization and its technology, the area is barely inhabitable.
The American settlers made Texas as a whole livable. People who claim they want “Texas back” are claiming something that never was theirs and that they didn’t create. Someone needs to teach that to LULAC MALDEF, MECHA and all the other so-called “latino” special interests.
I was under the impression that Santa Ana (or the Mexican gummint at the time) had invited the Anglos into Texas as safety for Mexico against the US. True?