We're also supposed to forget that the first few presidents of Mexico were horribly corrupt -- so corrupt that that Mexico had to change the name of it's new nation (i.e. "First Federal Republic", "Centralist Republic") as it kept trying to rebrand itself as not as corrupt as the last guy.
And we're also supposed to forget that Santa Anna wormed his way into being head of state twice after being thrown out the first time for corruption. This enraged many Mexicans in many parts and encouraged rebellions all over, not just Tejas.
Lastly we're supposed to forget that Anna ordered the removal of a cannon that was meant to protect the Tejans from the persistently attacking Comanches. You know, part of the agreement to the Americans when they were asked to move to Texas to begin with. Basically, the Texans had their own Paul Revere type "redcoats are coming to take our guns" moment -- what the Texans have immortalized by telling Annas to "come and take it".
The liberals would have us believe that Texas had been part of Mexico for meelyuns and meelyuns of years. When in fact Texas seceded from Mexico in the 1830's as fairly and squarely as Mexico had seceded from Spain just two decades prior.
Mexico didn’t get formal independence from Spain until 1821. And the first few Americans invited to Texas were invited by the Spanish, not independent Mexico.
My contention is Texas was NEVER Mexican, it was part of the Spanish Empire, but not Mexico after independence.