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after 180 white pioneers were slaughtered in the Alamo, a whole generation of white boys in the South and West were called after those heroes.

You ought to take a real close look at those names of the Alamo defenders, which begins alphabetically with that of Juan Abamillo. Quite a few were Texans of Mexican origin, and fought and died just as bravely as those from elsewhere. And you'll find their names well remembered by those who admire such courage, in Texas and elsewhere as well.

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I nowhere suggested the Alamo heroes were Anglo-Saxons exclusively. Most of the ones that get boys named after them were laboring-class Scots/Irish pioneers from the southern Appalachians.

They did speak English, as the besieging Mexicans complained they could not understand them.

Studies show that of just over 200,000 persons not native Indians living in Texas at that moment, only 4% were Hispanic, and those were white having come from Spain directly to Texas without any time to intermarry with Indians.

Seguin is the one most often mentioned.