My Columbus Day t-shirt.......I always love it when some Spanish ancestry person here in the southwest starts bragging about being 6th or 7th generation Americans. My response is: "so, you're new-comers also......"Back in the day, Americans began spilling over into Texas when it still belonged to Spain and then Mexico. Texans fought and won independence from Mexico in 1836, but the U.S. didn't want them, so they formed their own Republic. Although they eventually became a state, Texans have never forgotten the nine years they were their own country.Wrong answer, guess again.......
You people appear to be citizens of a country other than the United States of America. You fly a different flag than ours. You do not profess the core values of the nation that took my ancestors in and the nation that my ancestors helped build.
No. They haven't. And some of them still don't count themselves as Americans. I went through the whole visit-the-Alamo thing when I was a kid. I've always wondered what the descendants of the Spanish-speaking peoples who have lived on the same land for hundreds of years think of this whole thing.
I like to wear this shirt on Thanksgiving...
That aughta trigger a few posters here........