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Correct me if I'm wrong, because you're the Texan, but I was under the impression that the #1 reason Texas declared it's independence from Mexico was because of the issue of slavery. Mexico wasn't populating the area, and the Mexican government was fine with hoards of southern Americans to fill up the territory to fuel economic activity so long as they didn't hate on Mexico's control. When Mexico outlawed slavery, the Texas were all "WTF!" (due to the vast majority if southern slave-holders and the expansion of King Cotton into the west).
Thus Mexico fought to retain their territory, but it didn't work out so well (the battle at the Alamo occured during this time), and Texas knew damn well that it could not viably survive as a nation unto itself even if Mexico DID leave it alone, so it constantly begged the US to annex it. The USA was nervous to do so because they feared it would piss the Mexican gov't off to the maximum, but eventually went ahead with it anyway, which in turn triggered the Mexican-American War (where the US made off with a shitload more territory from Mexico).
Does the Alamo film discuss any of this, or is it just about a bunch of white guys in a church shooting Mexicans?
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