I am not an American, I am a Tejano. Just as much American as a Creole, or an Acadian, or an Navajo, or a Hawai'in - our culture will never be American because the United States absorbed us, we did not come looking for America. Tejanos did not come here looking for opportunity or followed the immigrant history of others. A brief breakdown...
Polk (the president who's platform while running was Manifest Destiny regardless of who we went to war with...approach vaguely familiar?) won his presidency on a margin smaller than Bush did in '00. Smaller. The first military order he gave was for Zach Taylor (future mason prez) to invade (yes, invade as it was still Mexican territory) South Texas. A few months later the US bullied Mexico in signing over millions of acres without the consent of the people or international diplomacy. The border was changed from the Nueces river to the Rio Grande. Everyone in between became US dependencies overnight, with no immediate or readily available citizenship access, land, or civil rights. It wasn't until the middle of the next century that access to these became available.
So if people are still speaking Spanish in America perhaps it is because access to Americanization was never rooted firmly in these groups due to the acts of aggression that founded these new non-native speakers. More alarming is that this act of do-nothing had a side effect of creating another group of people who are suddenly "native speakers" - the English speakers. These suddenly have a reason and a right to proclaim their "native" culture and worse, harm those who are now suddenly not native.
You are highly opinionated - which is great - however I really urge you to consider the context of your opinions, how they were formed and why you feel that way. If you want to read up on anything I've said I recommend these books:
Occupied America: Fifth Ed by Acuna
With His Pistol in his Hands by Praderas
Limits to Friendship by Pastor and Castaneda
Or just google the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago Land Title Disputes.
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