Why should anyone want to hold on to the Spanish language and heritage in the U.S.A. where English is considered the official language and England is the mother country?
It may come as a surprise, but in the U.S.A, New Spain is more than twice as large as New England. In that sense, Spain is more of a mother country in the U.S.A. than England. Not many citizens know that the Southwest is the only part of the U.S.A. that was taken by conquest. As such, our ancestors, their communities, pueblos, ranchos, missions, and presidios “came with the real estate”. No other part of the U.S. can claim that they were once part of a sovereign nation (The Republic of Mexico) before being subsumed into the U.S. While “pioneers” from England that landed on the East Coast are highly respected in U.S. history books, Spanish Mexican pioneers do not seem to enjoy the same respect and dignity. Our ancestors were not “immigrants” to the U.S.; nor were they brought here against their will. They arrived as pioneers. They were the first Europeans to set foot in Texas. They just happened to speak Spanish, a language other than English. It should be remembered, as mentioned earli
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