A Texas Divided Will Be Broken In Two

[douglas9]

Just like our country, Texas is allowing itself to be divided in two.

The truth is that the great Texas icons like Moses and Stephen F. Austin, Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and Will Travis, left the United States and immigrated to the land of opportunity, the provincial territory of the Mexican State of Coahuila called Tejas. These historic legends immigrated to become Mexican citizens.

We pretty much know the rest of the story. All we have to do is “Remember the Alamo.” That battle became a symbol… not of Americans fighting the dictatorship of Mexico… but Mexicans fighting the dictatorship of Santa Ana. Los Tejanos fought los Mexicanos and in 1836, the Republic of Texas emerged. Texas became a separate and independent country. Not American. Not Mexican. But Texan!

In order for the US government to be able to realize the “manifest destiny” of “sea to shining sea,” it had to get the Republic of Texas into the union. Why? Texas was geographically situated between the then United States and Mexico. After a lot of politicking, in December of 1845, the Texas Republic became annexed as a member state of the United States. Within a few months, in the spring of 1846, on a false political pretext, US troops launched a totally unprovoked invasion of Mexico and attacked the Mexican military fort of Palo Alto in what is now Brownsville, Texas… kicking off the two-year Mexican-American war. The US troops then marched all the way into and conquered the Capital of Mexico, Mexico City.

http://www.narconews.com/Issue49/article2967.html

[sonias]

1. I hate that wall

It has all the symbolism of the Berlin wall. Sure we're two nations, but two nations that have always co-existed. And in peace for a very long time.

Mexico is regaining the balance in Texas slowly but surely. The Hispanic population will be the majority population in this state by 2030 or earlier. You can't stop that. Those are just the facts based on current populations breakdowns. And they are legal American citizens. Yes some may have roots in Mexico, but we all have ancestors from somewhere. 95% of Americans were immigrants somewhere in their lineage. Only Native Americans can claim being true Americans.

I'm not so sure we aren't creating an opportunity for those that feel disenfranchised to get bitter. Think of the Israeli check points and the Palestinians who were legal citizens of Israel and were ousted from their country. Even the small population of Palestinians who still Israeli citizens feel torn by their situation.

Unfortunately the military industrial complex has big roots in Texas too. Texas is home to a lot of war profiteers.

Sonia