If white rich Americans started pushing into Mexico buying up huge swaths of land and poor neighborhoods to make a rich community, would not LIberals accuse them of colonialism?
We don’t have to wonder. How do you think Texas and California became part of the U.S.? American immigrants rapidly became a dominant force in Texas politics, leading to the secession of what had been part of Mexico. Sometimes lost in the victimology-based narrative is that many liberal Texans of Mexican origin originally supported secession, because of the policies of President Santa Anna. Most people don’t know that the Provisional Vice President of the Republic of Texas was Lorenzo Zayala, who wrote a very perceptive account of the U.S. intended for his fellow Mexicans before the the secession.
In California, American immigrants were at the core of the Bear Flag Revolt that overthrew Mexican government just ahead of General Fremont’s column.
In both California and Texas, immigrants took Mexican citizenship, and pretended to be Catholics, in order to acquire land titles. But their hearts remained not with Mexico, but with America, and it showed.
