Mexico Libel
The claim that the United States went to war to take Texas from Mexico, though widely believed, is untrue. ...
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I settled into the chair for my haircut, and the young Hispanic woman struck up a conversation, as hair cutters usually do. She asked what I did for a living, and I told her that I was a college history professor. After a moment of other such questions, she asked when was it that the United States took Texas from Mexico.
I considered my response for a moment. “Well, actually, the United States did not take Texas from Mexico. Texas won its independence from Mexico in the Texas Revolution, and it was almost a decade later that Texas was admitted to the United States as a state.”
She was clearly perplexed, and I added, “Perhaps you are thinking of California, which Mexico lost in the war.”
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