General Discussion

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And the Latinos then living in what was then Coahuila y Texas weren’t given much mention in my primary-school textbooks if they were mentioned at all.

However the myth that Texas was mostly inhabited by First Nations (I prefer this term over Native Americans) has long been nourished by the people who wrote Texas text books and Anglo politicians of varying stripes. And to be truthful, much of it was still First Nations territory, especially the Plains, Trans-Pecos, and much of the prairie and the wooded areas.

However, I would argue that most Mexican American Texans are descended from people who arrived later, especially after the turmoil of the 1910 Revolution, its aftermath and the Great Depression.. None of which gives the conservative (reactionary) establishment the right to slander Mexican-American Texans’ forebears or their presence in Texas.

It’s been over a century since the end of the most turbulent times of the 1910 Revolution.
That’s within a couple of years of those European immigrants who arrived after fleeing the aftermaths of World War One and the upheavals that followed. The refugees ‘ arrival is of similar age, regardless of the crap spewed by present-day reactionary influencers and BS artists.