Marine Wife. Mother. Boxer Mama. Southerner. Heritage American. Gardener. Former Journalist. Lifelong #Auburn Fan. Alabama Native. #TN Girl.

The South
I participated in our county’s annual Veterans Day celebration today. It’s held on the historic square in downtown. You know what I didn’t see among the veterans and local residents in attendance? Indians, Asians, and Middle Easterners. Not one person from these communities, which do exist around here, attended today. When they read off the names of local men who died in war, beginning with WWI, you know what I didn’t hear? Indian, Asian, or Middle Eastern names. The veterans and residents who attended the event were all white except for a small handful of black people. There was one obvious Latino last name mentioned in the list of those killed in war. That’s it. Only one. The names of those killed in action and the faces of veterans there today belonged to white men of European heritage and black men. The U.S. has not always been a melting pot. It was primarily forged through the blood and sweat of two distinct groups of people — whites of European heritage and a smaller percentage of black slaves and their descendants. I’m sick and tired of foreigners, especially the ones in my community who couldn’t be bothered to come today, trying to latch onto our story. I’m sick of foreigners coming here demanding we conform to their ideas of the U.S. when they haven’t contributed anything meaningful to it. Heritage Americans and ADOS/FBAs share a unique history, heritage, and culture formed over decades of cohabitation. It is our story. It doesn’t belong to them. And it will never belong to them.
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It makes no difference that Hispanics are wiping out the history of indigenous tribes in Nevada, just as long as they stick it to the white man. 🙄
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Nevada didn’t become a state until 1864. Even before then, Hispanics were not a majority of the population in that area. There were indigenous tribes in that region. White settlers later came to the area. Hispanics remained a tiny minority until the mid-20th century.
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The amount of angst this would give me is insane. This not OK.
How dare you put two different temperature bulbs in the room, Marriott. We live in a SOCIETY.
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Southern Mama retweeted
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The non-Native population of California was only about 14,000 in 1848, but the La Raza RECONQUISTA crowd acts like California is “stolen land” when it was actually Mexican territory for just 27 years. Estimated native populations were down to roughly 100,000 by the mid 1800s.
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Sangre y tierra translates Blood and Soil, the Nazi Blut und Boden concept tying ethnicity to territory. The referenced comment presents Southwest demographic shifts as Mexicans returning home, a form of cultural irredentism. Reconquista describes some Mexican and Chicano views of recovering 1848-ceded lands via demographics or politics. A 2002 Zogby poll found 58% of Mexicans agreed the Southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico; certain politicians have made similar remarks. Mexico's government accepts the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo borders.
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In 1772, the colonists had no right to trees over 12" thick, not even if it was in their front yard. A law reserved every white pine that size for the Royal Navy's masts. Surveyors roamed New Hampshire slashing a mark into the trees, claiming them for the King of England. The mill owners of Weare ignored the law and cut the trees they wanted to. So the sheriff rode out to arrest them and collect the fines. The Weare men blackened their faces and went after the sheriff in what is now called the Pine Tree Riot. They gave him a lash for every tree he'd charged them for. Then they cropped the ears and tails off his horses and sent him riding out of town through a jeering crowd. Before the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre, a New Hampshire town defied the Crown. And the pine tree symbol remained. When Washington needed a flag for his first warships in 1775, he put a New England pine on it, over the words "An Appeal to Heaven." This turned something that the King used to tyrannize the colonists to support his Navy, into a symbol of a country defying him on their own Navy.
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When we had just a few Indians, the Nikki Haleys and Bobby Jindals who assimilated, converted to Christianity, etc. found it easy to be treated as individuals Now that we have a lot more Indians, and we see them forming ethnic ethnic enclaves, engaging in ethnic nepotism, building giant Hindu statues, dumping Hindu trash into our waterways, an Indian like Vivek Ramaswamy who blasphemes Christianity and has annual Christmas crash outs will find it much harder to unify Republicans behind him
Joel is incapable of understanding why Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley didn’t have the same problem Vivek does. It’s not the color of his skin. It’s the disdain for Americans.
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Southern Mama retweeted
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If the Southwest actually belonged to Mexico, theyd still cross the border into the United States
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CEZAR ARMANDO A SANTIAGO PEREZ’s @ICEgov Detainer showed up after being arrested this morning at 12:26 AM for Felony Probation Violation, a DUI, & Implied Consent. His 1st arrest showed up in 2020 on Domestic Assault, which has now been Retired by Judge Gale Robinson. In January 2022 he was Indicted on Aggravated Assault w/ a Deadly Weapon by Judge William Higgins. It appears Judge Steve Dozier Dismissed that charge in March 2022. In May 2023, Judge Robin Kimbrough-Hayes Dismissed Public Intoxication Charges & Dismissed Assault against an Officer Charges. sci.ccc.nashville.gov/Search… dcso.nashville.gov/Search/De…
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Fun fact: The Cameroon diaspora population in South Carolina is larger than the town of Cross Hill in Laurens County. Using demographic modeling, the number of Cameroonian immigrants and their American-born children has grown to an estimated 600 people. In comparison, the entire population of Cross Hill in Laurens County is roughly 450.
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Southern Mama retweeted
Yes, it's quite fun to point out to the mexican larpers that pretend they owned all of the southern US because of one map that no, actually the Native Americans had that land and no mexican was ever gonna get it from them.
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@LaNativePatriot Dude, I never really thought about it, but they replaced the actual natives with Mexicans when they talk about the Southwest being Old Mexico. (Not sure if I'm articulating my point well - when we think of who the actual natives of the southwest were, they weren't the Latinos that the narrative would have us believe were the natives.)
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I asked Google AI for an analysis of this thread. Here is its response:
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Mexicans have a long history in the American Southwest, with their roots extending back thousands of years when considering their Indigenous ancestry in the region. They are foundational Americans
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Southern Mama retweeted
This one could have been removed from the country 6 years ago, but Nashville Judges wanted to keep him.
CEZAR ARMANDO A SANTIAGO PEREZ’s @ICEgov Detainer showed up after being arrested this morning at 12:26 AM for Felony Probation Violation, a DUI, & Implied Consent. His 1st arrest showed up in 2020 on Domestic Assault, which has now been Retired by Judge Gale Robinson. In January 2022 he was Indicted on Aggravated Assault w/ a Deadly Weapon by Judge William Higgins. It appears Judge Steve Dozier Dismissed that charge in March 2022. In May 2023, Judge Robin Kimbrough-Hayes Dismissed Public Intoxication Charges & Dismissed Assault against an Officer Charges. sci.ccc.nashville.gov/Search… dcso.nashville.gov/Search/De…
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Fun fact: The Egyptian diaspora community in Louisiana is larger than the entire population of St. Francisville in West Feliciana Parish. Using demographic modeling, an estimated 2,300 Egyptian immigrants and their American-born children live in Louisiana. In comparison, St. Francisville is home to about 1,500 people.
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The Supreme Court has given the Trump administration the green light to use a federal citizenship database to verify voters ahead of the midterm elections, per ABC
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Face of American history 🇺🇸
Today is my 3x great grandpaw's 200th birthday. Samuel Nicholson was born on Sep. 25th, 1826. He and his younger brother joined the 1st Georgia Partisan Rangers in early 1862, which evolved into Smith's Legion. As Smith's Legion would be split into separate infantry and cavalry units, he went into Company G, 65th Georgia Infantry and would soon be appointed the rank of 3rd Sergeant. His brother went into the 6th Georgia Cavalry as a private in Company A. In late 1863, both were home on medical leave and in 1864, both left home for Athens to enlist in Company I, 11th Georgia Cavalry through the end of the war. Samuel died in Apr. 1885 from phthisis(tuberculosis). 🫡
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No, Mexicans have their own country. It’s called Mexico. They are not foundational Americans. They are Mexican.
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Mexicans have a long history in the American Southwest, with their roots extending back thousands of years when considering their Indigenous ancestry in the region. They are foundational Americans
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Southern Mama retweeted
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The same is said about most CA cities with Spanish names. There were only 80k Mexicans living in the ceded territories, 60k of whom lived in NM. CA and NV had miniscule Mexican populations, and both states were made great by the American founding stock.
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