Mickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 3 个月前Now that's an interesting questionlemmy.worldimagemessage-square95linkfedilinkarrow-up11.2Karrow-down119
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minus-squareramble81@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up83·3 个月前Yeah I point out that Texas used to actually be part of Mexico and the border moved, not the people.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up96·3 个月前The border moved because Mexico had banned slavery so they fought a war to keep it. Texas is the only state in the union to fight a war for slavery TWICE.
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23·3 个月前And that, kids, is the important thing to remember about The Alamo
minus-squaregreenfire@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·3 个月前Apparently white folk in Texas despise being called Texicans
minus-squarePopcornPrincess@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·3 个月前We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us.
minus-squareMuskyMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 个月前Isn’t Texas properly pronounced as Te-has, a Mexican name?
minus-squareGoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 个月前Tejas is from the native americans, if I remember rightly. Something to do with ‘friend’ or ‘friendship’ I think. Then it gets filtered through the spanish language before coming to english as texas.
Yeah I point out that Texas used to actually be part of Mexico and the border moved, not the people.
The border moved because Mexico had banned slavery so they fought a war to keep it.
Texas is the only state in the union to fight a war for slavery TWICE.
And that, kids, is the important thing to remember about The Alamo
Apparently white folk in Texas despise being called Texicans
We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us.
In capitalist America.
Isn’t Texas properly pronounced as Te-has, a Mexican name?
Tejas is from the native americans, if I remember rightly. Something to do with ‘friend’ or ‘friendship’ I think. Then it gets filtered through the spanish language before coming to english as texas.