Happy Independence Day

[Azathoth]

Actually, the Tejanos were driven out. Thousands of them were forced to sell their land or were attacked, on the pretext that they were Mexicans or Mexican sympathizers. Even Juan Seguin, who led Tejanos and fought on the side of Texas during the Revolution, who was elected as Mayor of San Antonio, had to flee with his family in 1842 after trying to protect his fellows.

For example: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6531/

San Antonio claimed then, as it claims now, to be the first city of Texas; it was also the receptacle of the scum of society. My political and social situation, brought me into continual contact with that class of people. At every hour of the day and night, my countrymen ran to me for protection against the assaults or exactions of those adventurers. Sometimes, by persuasion, I prevailed on them to desist; some times, also, force had to be resorted to. How could I have done other wise? Were not the victims my own countrymen, friends and associates? Could I leave them defenceless, exposed to the assaults of foreigners, who, on the pretext that they were Mexicans, treated them worse than brutes.

The problem was that many of the settlers were greedy racists.

http://www.escholarship.org/editions...&brand=ucpress

Mexico and the United States are peopled by two utterly distinct and unhomogeneous races.

After the Dawson Massacre many Texans advocated simply running all the Tejanos out of the state. You can't possibly find this surprising, America has exhibited similar suspicions of the Japanese and German ethnic groups during the World Wars. And hey, those Mexicans are brown.

White folks and Mexicans were never made to live together, anyhow, and the Mexicans had no business here.

Check out this book for backstory. http://www.amazon.com/Anglos-Mexican...8176560&sr=1-1