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15. It was really successive revolutions

Reply to Vogon_Glory (Reply #14)

Sun Feb 15, 2026, 07:29 PM

19 hrs ago

They kinda just say everything from 1910-1920 was just the Mexican Revolution, but there were about five different leaders who took over and many others who had fiefdoms here and there. It was really a mess down there.

I end to agree with the above post that said most of the folks with Mexican descent in Texas probably descend from that rather than the 1800s settlers. There actually weren't many Tejanos really -- what's now Texas was really unpopulated. That's the main reason Stephen F. Austin got permission for Anglo settlements in the first place.

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