« Reply #61 on: July 07, 2006, 05:17:57 PM »
Originally posted by Nash
...any different than the U.S.'s taking over land from the Native Americans and displacing its people?...
.....How is it any different than the annexing of the Western U.S. (Oregon, Texas) and the Mexican-American War that led to Mexico's ceding of the S.W. of the U.S. (California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado etc.)? How is it any different from the idea of Manifest Destiny?
I think you'll agree that neither the Native Americans or the Hispanics (who talk gleefully now of the "reconquista") have any big warm fuzzy feelings for the Federal government. Pretty much like Southerners in that regard, wrt to the "ell no I ain't forgettin'" aspect of the Civil War.
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