SB4 Bill in Texas

[walkingman]

5. The hostility of Texans towards Mexico is based on far more than immigration.

Really kind of strange considering that Republic of Texas, later State of Texas, was a part of Mexico.

"Texas greatest source of discontent, though, was the Mexican government’s 1829 abolition of slavery. Most American settlers were from southern states, and many had brought slaves with them. Mexico tried to accommodate them by maintaining the fiction that the slaves were indentured servants. But American slaveholders in Texas distrusted the Mexican government and wanted Texas to be a new U.S. slave state. The dislike of most for Roman Catholicism (the prevailing religion of Mexico) and a widely held belief in American racial superiority led them generally to regard Mexicans as dishonest, ignorant, and backward."

As a citizen of Texas I find it shameful.