Mexican view on general Santa Anna

 

Moslems in Europe anyone?

 

 

 

Anti-Gringo arguments as usual.  How boring.

 

The "half of Mexico" in question was virtually unpopulated, except for California - a huge area with a few hundred thousand people, remote from Mexico and not particularly in love with Santa Ana and the Mexican military elites.  There was virtually no resistance to the US in California, so who did the US "wrong?"

 

Was it the prairie dogs in New Mexico or the cacti in Arizona?

 

The hispanic population in the US is about 11% (about 30 million), and a lot of them have been here for many generations, some longer than the Anglos.

 

This stuff about foreigners being some kind of vague threat to America if they settle here is non sequitur.  A hundred years ago, the hordes of immigrants to America helped to make us a major power.  We could not have achieved that without them.

 

My own family was a mix of German Lutheran, Hungarian Catholic and Ulster Presbyterian.  The best man at my wedding was Italian; my wife is a Welsh/English Methodist.  My freshman and sophomore roomate at university was from (ahem) Mexico.  He majored in architecture and stayed here.

 

We are Western people.  And yes, Mexicans are Western - not European, but Western.  They work hard, they tend to be more devout Christians, and they have obvious intelligence and initiative.

 

I am not the least bit concerned about more Americans named Garcia and Martinez.

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry fellow, that percentage was in the 1990.  Today is reaching 15% or even more. 25% of the U.S. people will be Hispanic by 2050.

 

Pinguin

 

 

Yeah. It doesn't matter much. There are more things in common between Mexicans and Americans that people usually realize.

 

Pinguin

 

Just goes to show how much difference that "war" ultimately made.... both the Spanish and English speaking populations have continued to live in the area regardless of who administrated it.  The Mexican-American war truly was a needless conflict.