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I couldn't agree more. It's just that I get bit PO'd at revisionist history...

T> I still don't rightly care what the history of it is. I was born here,

I'm all for a southern border gasket so long as it has razor wire and armed guards.

Tony

What is "revisionist history"?

History is in the past............let's all move forward, huh?

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MUADIB®

The Peacemaking Meeting scheduled for today has been cancelled due to a conflict.

It's when some one retells history with a slant to promote their agenda. Like saying we stole Texas so we should let all the Mexican illegals in without complaining.

So long as it's told as accurately as possible.

Tony

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:34:53 GMT, MUADIB scribbled this interesting note:

You guys are funny. Getting into arguments like this!

If a person is going to opine about Texas history, it helps to have read the definitive work on the subject. If you have any interest in what makes Texas and Texans tick, go out and find a copy of Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans by T.R. Fehrenbach.

This book starts out at the time of the last ice age and ends in the first half of the Twentieth Century. It is a good read and full of great information.

The thing about Texas is, and this is stated time after time in this work, no one, not the Indians, not the Spanish, not the French, and not the Mexicans, could properly develop Texas. In fact, until the US colonists arrived, there was virtually no one in the area today called Texas. There were a few Indian tribes in East Texas (the most hospitable part of the state) and some cannibals down around the southern coast. Other than that, the place was almost empty-for a reason. It is a hard place in which to live and everything in Texas is controlled by the climate. In fact, even today there are vast areas that are virtually empty. Until western European colonists from the US were encouraged by the Mexican government to settle in Texas and develop it, the place was pretty much unchanged from the days after the last ice age.

The trouble between Mexico and the colonists was a cultural clash. Mexico derives its culture from southern Europe (hence the term Latin America) and runs differently than cultures derived from north-western Europe (England, France, Germany). Mexico wanted a developed, useful, productive state, yet was unwilling to grant even the protections it ostensibly extended to its new citizens. These are two, very simplified reasons why Texas and Mexico split the blanket. Were there some who were adventurers? Of course. But most of the people who participated in the war between Texas and Mexico had legitimate interests in separation. And contrary to popular belief, many were Mexican by descent and not recent colonists from the US.

Go get the book and give it a read. It is necessary for a better understanding of today's situation between Mexico and the US.

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