Excellent. You should write that up. You basically already did. That should be published
That lives on my profile page. I was going to post it, with attribution, if he hadn’t already.
That’s actually the end of something I had written up. Here is the top of it.
The True History of the Southwest
The fallacies surrounding the history of the American Southwest are staggering, chief among them the Aztlan fairy tales. So what is the truth? How did the Spanish conquer the Southwest? They did it with fire and blood. For example, in 1598 Juan de Oñate entered present-day New Mexico leading hundreds of soldiers on a mission to subdue and then colonize the territory for Spain. In late 1598, a skirmish between his soldiers and the inhabitants of the Acoma Pueblo village resulted in eleven Spanish being killed. In early 1599, Oñate ordered the pueblo destroyed in retaliation, resulting in the deaths of more than 500 Indians. Survivors of the siege were ordered enslaved for twenty years, with the adult men having a foot amputated.
That is how Spain vanquished the natives of the present-day American Southwest—not with hugs and kisses. It was certainly no love-fest between brown-skinned soul-mates, as it is often portrayed today by the delusional Aztlaners, who like to spin the “new bronze race of Mestizos” fable.
By 1821, Mexico was strong enough to declare its independence from Spanish colonial rule. However, the distant provinces of the current U.S. Southwest were far beyond the reach and control of the strife-torn and financially insolvent nascent government in Mexico City. These distant northern territories received neither military protection nor required levels of trade from the chaotic Mexican government. Under colonial rule, commerce with the expanding United States was forbidden, but at least Spain was able to provide trade and Army protection from hostile Indian attacks in return for this monopoly arrangement. Abandoned and neglected by Mexico City, the Southwest received neither trade nor protection.
As a result, in the 1830s Comanches and Apaches ran rampant in the power vacuum created by Mexican neglect, burning scores of major ranches that had been active for centuries and massacring their inhabitants. Mexico City could neither defend nor keep the allegiance of its nominal subjects in these regions. Nor did it provide needed levels of trade to sustain the prior Spanish colonial era standard of living. Mexican governmental influence atrophied, withered and died at the same time that American pathfinders were opening up new trade routes into the region.
Increasingly, a growing United States of America was making inroads into the Southwest, via sailing ships to Texas and California, and via wagon trains of trade goods sent over the Santa Fe Trail from St. Louis. The standard of living of the Spanish inhabitants of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas subsequently increased enormously, which is why they did not support the Mexico City government during the 1846-48 war. In fact, the Spanish-speaking inhabitants of the Southwest have never considered themselves Mexicans at all. According to their reckoning, they transitioned from Spanish directly to American.
So for how long did the independent government of Mexico.... (the end piece is above).