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i'm with meepa: that article, archer, is a strange thing to write after seeing an alamo movie. the war was fought, not to preserve texas, but to *create* texas. and its creation was founded on the belief that use of slaves is perfectly decent way to grow cotton, that the law against poaching animals was unfair, and (more fairly), that santa ana was a terrible leader of mexico.
now, it's true that texas colonists had developed a sence of community separate from mexicans, for obvious cultural reasons. and you could point to the war for texas independance as being the event that defined the birth of 'texas' as we know it today--soon afterwards independence, the anglo government worked hard to boot out the tejano population out of 'their' land. for people that believe that independence is more important than morals, perhaps you could be proud of an event like this.
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