Why were the Anglos able to heavily settle and urbanize Texas and California but the Hispanics have not for centuries?Just right after conquering it from the Mexicans, the Americans immediately flooded the place and made it a very rich place.
They simply didnt have the manpower or capital to do it. Usa had a booming population and huge waves of immigration coming from europe. Plus the gold rush that came right after the mexican-american war certainly helped.
>>18219083First off, there was little to no direct control over those territories by design. The few hispanos who lived there cared nothing for whatever the faggots in Mexico City were doing. The Spanish were likewise very slow to establish a presence there when they realized Aridoamerica had no grand cities like the ones they found further south. So they settled on simply buying off local tribes and playing them against the French/British.Second, the Americans were invited there by Mexico specifically to develop the land and provide a buffer against Comanche raids.>Just right after conquering it from the Mexicans, the Americans immediately flooded the place and made it a very rich place.The southwest was absolutely not a rich place between 1848-1930s. It was the invention of the automobile and air conditioning that even made those regions habitable in the first place. It remained empty for roughly another century until military hardware was moved to places like California and provided jobs.
>>18219119>The Spanish were likewise very slow to establish a presence there when they realized Aridoamerica had no grand cities like the ones they found further southit didn't stop them in south america, only places with actual cities like mesoamerica was in modern day peru
>>18219129South America had a reliable supply of silver mines that made it financially viable to set up an operation. Aridoamerica had very few; mainly in Arizona and parts of southwest Texas.
>>18219083Manifest Destiny was real. This is the only logical answer, God just wanted the white man to take the north american continent and turn it into the greatest country on earth.
>>18219116>Plus the gold rush that came right after the mexican-american war certainly helped.The spanish or mexicans never found any gold while they were there?
>>18219116It wasn’t manpower. A majority of Western Americans descend from 10 or so Pioneer families in Tennessee.It’s why they’re all retarded apes.
>>18219136Most people settled to establish agricultural settlements for cash crops, which flourished in Texas. Not for silver.They had reason to settle, they didn’t because they lacked the grit of Americans.
New Spain (Mexico) was heavily decapitalized by the Bourbons through taxation. After the independence the newly formed Mexico was broke and couldnt properly settle & build northern territories. Meanwhile the anglos had had peace & economic stability since 1776.
>>18219159God seems to have decided the White Man’s time is up.
>>18219425Whose time is it then? The only people still reproducing at high rates are retarded Africans who can't develop their own countries.
>>18219577The Chinese century has begun.
>>18219399Where did the tax dollars go?
>>18219129Anything not on the Andes was basically just a chain of forts from the nearest silver mine to the nearest port with the odd scattered fort/mission systen. Though.
>>18219581Retarded wars in the Netherlands.
>>18219579Chinese power is probably already peaking, considering 33% of their population is unable to reproduce and they're currently sperging trying to get those who can to do so.
>>18219083In short, because the useful parts of Texas, New Mexico, and especially California were unbelievably far away from Mexico city and the valuable parts of Mexico that the Spanish actually cared about. The longer answer, for California at least, is that although the Spanish had discovered the country by 1542 and had made plans to colonize it within the century, the lack of developed native societies meant that it would be a slow affair. The slow rot of the Spanish Empire at large and the complete focus of the metropole on European affairs put most colonial expansion on hold for the next 200 years. They simply lacked the vitality to engage in the long colonization of a territory quite literally on the other side of the world. It took until the Bourbon monarchy for the Spanish state to regain the capacity for limited expansion, which it began in the 1760s in California proper. They built a system of both missions and settler colonies, designed to solidify the Spanish claim to the region against British and Russian encroachments, but the extreme distance from the rest of Mexico slowed growth and prevented easy access to additional colonists. Even by 1848, the population numbered only 8000 or so, although they were notably wealthy>>18219119California was the second-richest state in the US by the 1870s or 80s, Texas was decently developed by the time the oil boom hit in 1901 and then became almost as wealthy. You might be thinking of Arizona or New Mexico, which were indeed shitholes until well into the 20th century.>>18219170A few apocryphal accounts, from 1890 at the earliest, allege that the missionaries had discovered gold but immediately suppressed knowledge of it to protect the natives
>>18219083Why were they less successful in New Mexico? Only state with a majority of Hispanics
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>>18219581>Where did the tax dollars go?New Spain (Mexico) maintained Peninsular's wars in Europe. It also paid the salaries of the colonial administration in Cuba, Philippines & Central America.There's a good book about it, how New Spain was decapitalized throughly by the Peninsula.Independent Mexico had to carry the weight of the putrefact spanish empire on its back, while having to fight Amerikkka at the same time.
>>18219399Did the Bourbons destroy the Spanish empire?
>>18219657New Mexico had a dense civilization (by USA standards, not sure how it compares to Mesoamerica) that Spain could install themselves on top of. Pueblo peoples.Spain actually got exiled by a successful revolt in 1680, but twelve years later they let the Spanish back in to keep the Apache out.
>>18219581At independence, 1/3 of all Mexican revenue went to paying tribute to the Comanche
>>18219689The cartels keep this vibrant cultural tradition alive today
The discovery of precious metals after the Americans took control provided an economic incentive for settlement in what had been remote areas with only a few areas suitable for agriculture. The industrial war machine finally subdued nomadic horse warriors. Then the great transcontinental railroads really opened up the west but there were still vast areas with low populations. Arizona and New Mexico didn’t become states until 1912 and even now large areas of the Southwest are blank spaces on the map, even with islands of air conditioned biodomes housing millions.
>>18219083Latinxes are lazy.
>>18220100Source?
>>18220714None. He made it up.
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>>18219083Texas and Alaska should been monarchy nations
>>18219629>British and Russian encroachmentsSomehow, I kinda doubt that the British and Russian Empires were all that interested in land deep in the Rocky Mountains or out in the Yuma Desert.Present-day Vancouver? Maybe. But the area around Prescott, Arizona? Nah.
>>18222560ngl, it would be pretty kino if there were actual royal palaces in Anchorage and Austin rather than just the governor's mansion.
