Guadalupe Hidalgo Day: Celebrating The Victory That Gave America The Southwest
From the VDare article, Happy Guadalupe Hidalgo Day: Celebrating The Victory That Gave America The Southwest - And Even Oregon, 2 February 2024:
The United Press reports today that "On This Day In History":
In 1848, the war between the United States and Mexico formally ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. It provided for Mexico's cession of the territory that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and parts of Colorado and Wyoming in exchange for $15 million.
... the real reason for the treaty was the United States winning the Mexican War...
As Jared Taylor points out here, this is not only about how America got Texas and California, but Oregon as well. Even before the Great Awokening, American schoolchildren were told that this was an "imperialistic war of aggression," which is nothing different than what Mexican schoolchildren are taught about it. It wasn't. See, for example, James K. Polk And Our Just War Against Mexico, by Pat Buchanan from 2009.
For some even more based history of the Mexican War, see The War with Mexico - The actual circumstances of the war were far different from today’s conventional wisdom, by Erik Peterson, American Renaissance, September 1995...
if you attended an American high school... you may have been told that America was the bad guy in the Mexican War. This is wrong.
Here is some of our reporting over the last 24 years...