Talk:Corrido
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I'm dissatisfied in several ways with
the mestizo Mexican cultural area (which includes the Southern states of the United States, taken from Mexican sovereignship [sic] in the mid to late 19th. Century).
For one thing, most of the southern states of the United States--Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi--were never under Mexican sovereignty at all, though several of them did belong to Spain in the colonial period.
For another, nearly all of the territory that the United States took from Mexico directly or indirectly was acknowledged as US territory by Mexico by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in 1848, in exchange for $15,000,000 plus some debt relief. Mexico then sold what's now a small portion of southern Arizona and southern New Mexico to the US in 1854, in the Gadsden Purchase.
Result? Our current wording seems to imply that the whole of the southern US is rightfully Mexican and was (wrongfully?) wrested away by the US sometime in (say) the 1870s, whereas in reality it was just the southwestern United States and it was ceded by legal treaty in exchange for money around the year 1850. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.213.77.129 (talk • contribs)
