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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

America was only about 99% Protestant until Catholic immigration fired up in the 1840s, then by 1850, Catholics were about 5%.

Mexico, being almost 99% catholic at the time must have taken in tens of millions of Catholic immigrants as the Catholic foreigners longed to be with their nice fellow Catholics.


132 posted on 05/25/2014 10:08:03 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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To: ansel12
So what are you saying? That America should become a Protestant theocracy like it was before the Revolution and outlaw Catholicism?

Mexico, as a Spanish colony, provided a huge portion of Spain's income and was carefully governed almost as a large military installation. They did not accept whoever wished to immigrate, and as you astutely realized earlier in the thread, they didn't have airplanes, so it would be rather difficult to get there from England, Scotland, Germany, etc.

Also, again displaying your profound ignorance, you seem not to realize Florida and Louisiana were part of the Spanish empire and would be rather easier to get to than Mexico anyway. Many Catholics did try to make for the Spanish territories, those who were not slaves.

135 posted on 05/25/2014 10:21:40 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Pope Calvin the 1st, defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades)
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