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And a bit saddened that the "break-aways" didn't always get a fair deal in the years that followed.

I think they got a pretty fair deal just by getting to live in the USA instead of Mexico --- and I think they all realized that too. I've never heard of any New Mexicans or Tejanos trying to secede from the USA --- all that Aztlan stuff comes from the immigrant group which took the Mexican side of San Jacinto. The SW hispanics live much better than they ever could have in Mexico.

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The SW hispanics live much better than they ever could have in Mexico.

Agreed on that.
I wasn't making a politically-correct bleating...but when I was growing up
a few of my relatives and friends were definitely nasty about Hispanics of all stripes.
At the time, I didn't know these folks had KKK leanings, if not membership.
But in reflection, their disdain may have been also along religional lines as
the KKK bashed Catholics, which many Mexicans are.