(11-28-2017 11:02 PM)bullet Wrote:  Also, there weren't many Mexicans in the current US. There were only 5,000 in Texas at the time of the Texas Revolution vs. 35,000 Anglos and 10,000-20,000 Indians. New Mexico had a higher percentage, but there were hardly any Mexicans elsewhere other than in California, which only had about 8,000 non-natives in 1840 (vs. 30-150k Indians).

Mexico controlled the territory lost in the Texas Revolution and Mexican-American War pretty much on paper only.

The high percentage of Hispanics now in the Southwest is a consequence of the illegal immigration flood of the 80s and 90s and 00s along with a flow following the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s. My family was an exception. They moved to Texas from Mexico in the 1850s and 1860s.

There was no difference between Mexico and the USA then. It was not until the USA made massive infrastructure improvements to the USA SW, then the Mexicans wanted to come to the USA. No different in Israel also. That place was nothing until the Jews went back and made it modern. Hell, a few hundred Jews took a barren scrabble of nothing in the North Coast of the Dominican Rep and built Sosua.