Texas Thread

[Ghosty]

Basic history of Texas:

Texas was colonized by many Native American tribes.

Texas, along with just about everything west of it south of Oregon and Wyoming and such, was colonized by the Spanish, who told the Native Americans to worship Christ or die.

In the mid-1800s, Spain outlawed slavery in Mexico, and Texas revolted, seceding from Mexico to become its own country because they couldn't live without their slaves. Even before the war was over they applied for US Statehood, though it took them a while to be accepted into the Union, partly because of their stance on slavery, partly because the US didn't want to tick off Spain just yet. Eventually they just said "What the $%@#, why not" and beat up Mexico until the Spaniards gave them California and Arizona and whatnot too. Then they carved out Oklahoma from Texas and told the Native Americans to move there or die.

Then of course, in the 1860s, there was the US Civil War over slavery, further complicating things. And of course there's that border dispute Myem mentioned.

And since then, Texas has been a US state.