Far Left Wackadoodle Professor Strikes Again...

[JakeStarkey]

OK!

 

[code1211]

Jake and Maggie are right on the money.

The country of Mexico (corresponding almost exactly to the Viceroyalty of New Spain) was the legitimate successor, the legitimate heir to most of the lands colonised by Spain in North America (including what is now called the Southwest of the United States).

Just like the USA is the legitimate heir to the 13 colonies created by England on the Atlantic Coast of North America.

Florida was also a part of the Spanish colonies, wasn't it? Was the land west of the Mississippi but east of the Rockies called New Orleans? Were the people who lived in that area Saints fans?

 

[code1211]

The Spanish landed on the coast of Mexico around 1520, and they were in the southwestern US 60 years later, building missions, creating estancias, extracting encomienda, and impregnating Indian women throughout Mexico and the American southwest. The Azteca-Mexica empire was overthrown by 1525, Angelhair, 250 years our revolution even started, and more than 300 years before the US allowed Texas to entered the union and tool the upper northwest from Mexico in war. Now re-evaluate what you said about the president's dating of southwestern history.

Since there seems to be such confusion over when Mexicans began being addressed as Mexicans, maybe I'll ask the question at what point did Europeans landing at Plymouth Rock start to call themselves "Americans"?? Does anyone really care? Apparently only when some idiot can glom onto some word spoken by Obama that he thinks is an OMG moment and tries to generate an entire argument over it as if it's of earth-shattering relevance.

I mean, COME ON!!! This ridiculous obsession with every utterance by Barack Obama has become a pandemic, to be treated only by massive psychotherapy and/or heavy doses of Xanax, apparently.

Picking on every word seems to be the strategery of the opposition in any administration.

It's a form of trickeration. They are trying to undermine the decider.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Jake and Maggie are right on the money.

The country of Mexico (corresponding almost exactly to the Viceroyalty of New Spain) was the legitimate successor, the legitimate heir to most of the lands colonised by Spain in North America (including what is now called the Southwest of the United States).

Just like the USA is the legitimate heir to the 13 colonies created by England on the Atlantic Coast of North America.

Florida was also a part of the Spanish colonies, wasn't it? Was the land west of the Mississippi but east of the Rockies called New Orleans? Were the people who lived in that area Saints fans?

Why, yes, yes they were: San Jose, Santa Maria, Saint Louis, San Taos, Santa Fe.

Excellent post.

 

[code1211]

Jake and Maggie are right on the money.

The country of Mexico (corresponding almost exactly to the Viceroyalty of New Spain) was the legitimate successor, the legitimate heir to most of the lands colonised by Spain in North America (including what is now called the Southwest of the United States).

Just like the USA is the legitimate heir to the 13 colonies created by England on the Atlantic Coast of North America.

Florida was also a part of the Spanish colonies, wasn't it? Was the land west of the Mississippi but east of the Rockies called New Orleans? Were the people who lived in that area Saints fans?

Why, yes, yes they were: San Jose, Santa Maria, Saint Louis, San Taos, Santa Fe.

Excellent post.

Some of these things belong together. One of these things just doesn't belong...

 

[JakeStarkey]

It's your argument that does not belong, Code121l.