NY Times: Of Gringos and Old Grudges: This Land Is Their Land

[La_Serpiente]

Of Gringos and Old Grudges: This Land Is Their Land

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 8 — In the American South, William Faulkner once wrote, the past isn't dead. It isn't even past.

This may become truer the farther south one goes.

In the United States, almost no one remembers the war that Americans fought against Mexico more than 150 years ago. In Mexico, almost no one has forgotten.

The war cut this country in two, and "the wound never really healed," said Miguel Soto, a Mexico City historian. It took less than two years, and ended with the gringos seizing half of Mexico, taking the land that became America's Wild West: California, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and beyond.

In Mexico, they call this "the Mutilation." That may help explain why relations between the nations are sometimes so tense.

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Of Gringos and Old Grudges: This Land Is Their Land

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[Nlighten1]

1. They should just "get over it"

that seems to be the answer for everything these days.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. Well, at least now we know why the Republicans gerrymandered Texas.

They must have seen this coming.

I still can't believe those judges approved the redistricting because it was based on "politics" and not race discrimination. What a lie.