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[[File:SweidshSnafu.jpg|frame|''[[Machete|THE BORDER CROSSED US!]]'']]
In 1835 the Republic of Texas separated from its previous [[Mexico|Mexican]] rule. After spending the better part of their one sovereign decade attempting to join the United States, Texas was annexed by the USA in 1845. The United States offered Texas security, stable rule, and economic survivability, as many had families in the United States and feared that Mexico had plans to strike once more at Texas, hence this trope. The United States also would protect the settlers' right to own slaves-- these settlers, first invited to Texas by the Mexican government after agreeing to follow Mexican law, balked at Mexico's ban on slavery in 1829, which these slave-owning settlers very much disagreed with. <ref>Texas was actually granted a one-year exemption from the 1829 ban, but Mexican president Anastasio Bustamante ordered that all slaves be freed in 1830. To circumvent the law, many Anglo colonists converted their slaves into indentured servants for life.</ref> The slavery aspect is something Texans unsurprisingly tend to gloss over when discussing their state's history.
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Thus, whenever in speculative fiction you see the United States somehow greatly weakened, or in the past before the USA became a superpower, you can pretty much be assured the back story will involve Mexico conquering at least Texas and California. <ref>Some Northerners would say [[Take That|good riddance.]]</ref> This is particularly ironic, because Mexico's economy is barely larger than Texas <ref>And not even as large as California's; in fact should Mexico hypothetically succeed this very moment in recovering just these two states, the Mexican economy would practically ''triple'' its size.</ref>. But then again, [[Everything Is Big in Texas|it IS Texas]].
A specific instance of [[X Called. They Want Their Y Back.]] See also [[Divided States of America]].
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* The above picture comes from an ad for Swedish Vodka that only ran in Mexico. That there was [[Internet Backdraft|a backlash]] when it was leaked into the USA is putting it mildly. This [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,346964,00.html news article] will explain better anything about the ad and the controversy.
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