Posted on 11/18/2014 12:44:50 PM PST by Regulator
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, which ended the Mexican War and for a cool $15 million acquired what is now the entire southwestern United States — Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and parts of Wyoming and Colorado — from Mexico was an uncannily well-timed moment in U.S. history. Could American negotiators have known that within a year gold would be discovered in California and the flood of Anglo and other immigrants into this state would be the beginning of a population boom still going on 165 years later?
(Excerpt) Read more at santacruzsentinel.com ...
Moonbeam must agree because when I go to California DMV it's in Spanish with an option to view it in English -- or the fault is in my browser. I immediately exit and look for other sources.
Yes it does.
Texas was ALREADY a part of the US (or at least an independent Country).
To the victor go the spoils.
.... Liberal logic would be quite entertaining and amusing if they weren't the ones actually running what is left of what was once called "The Free World."
noun: Mexican(s)
adjective: Mexican
Ethnic groups:
mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish) 60%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian 30%, white 9%, other 1%
Only 30% of Mexican nationals are Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian. The rest are heavily Spanish.
Languages:
Spanish only 92.7%, Spanish and indigenous languages 5.7%, indigenous only 0.8%, unspecified 0.8%
note: indigenous languages include various Mayan, Nahuatl, and other regional languages (2005)
This further deminishes that claim that the Mexicans are the true owners of the South West United States.
Under People and Society
Check out the post this responds to.
Not to mention that in most parts of this vast area, including most of California, Mexicans never even visited let alone settled it.
HEY I thought Eastern European Irish and Native American
with Alaskan native blood in me
I did Ancensty DNA LOL!
Mexicans probably wish we’d annex their country.
I, for one, would happily give California back to Mexico and would consider throwing in some boot. California’s pension debt is ultimately going to be paid by “us” if we don’t let Mexico have it. Think we could get them to take New Messico as well?
If that doesn’t work, and since Yucca Mountain is on hold, could we have thirty days to get our friends out - then turn LA into a nuclear test site?
That so true
Since if you realize think about it how Spanish govt would address us
Senor Senora or Senorita
or Yankee pig or piglet
That what I hear up when I living in Alaska
There some Russia natives who think Alaska “was stolen” from Russia don’t ask LOL!
Be honest Norm
If you look at all cities names and road name give props to Spanish mission settlers they know how leave good road names LOL!
Situation is different in NM. The Spanish had been there for a very long time indeed, predating the Pilgrims. They also got all over, if only intermittently, generally on military and trading expeditions.
Texas was colonized, very partially, starting in 1690.
The guy is a friggin’ POET! Yeah, that’s a qualification for valid social, political, and historical insight.
Like a lot of North Americans, he doesn't understand that Mexico and Latin America have many internal fissures, just as we do here. Indians, Spaniards, Mestizos, and Blacks weren't all one happy family.
And if the US hadn't entered the picture, we might see the same conflicts going on between residents of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, San Antonio, and migrants from further South.
Yes. California had mostly native Americans (Indians), with a sprinkling of Spanish and European settlers. There were far more Europeans here than Mexicans. The Russians had large outposts nearly all the way down California to San Francisco. The Spaniards pretty much stopped at the north end of SF Bay, near where the Russians were camped. Russians and Europeans were here hunting animal skins, and traded with the Spaniards. Very few Mexicans until the Americans took over. And even then, few Mexicans until the mid-twentieth century. The Spaniards were glad when the U.S. government took over, many making deals in support of the U.S. instead of Mexico.
One of the most famous was Mariano Vallejo, the governor of Spanish California. The Russians offered to sell Fort Ross to the new Mexican government, but Mexico delayed. Vallejo helped broker the sale to an American, John Sutter (a wheeler-dealer con artist who later discovered gold). Vallejo and other Spaniards saw that the Mexican government was corrupt, and sided with Americans. City of Vallejo is named for him, nearby Benicia for his wife. Back in the 1950s and 1960s I visited nearly every Mission in California, lots of very interesting history, little having to do with Mexicans who briefly held control of California.
Yeah, I’m sure there are some die-hards up there that believe that. To you and I it seems outlandish that they could believe that in this day and age.
In a Liberal’s mind that makes his opinion more valid than yours or mine.
Artists and Poets are the “intellectual elite”
They are the ones that SHOULD be running the country, don’t you know?
/sarc
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