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[-] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 5 days ago

No. The original "settlement" (aka stealing land from and genociding indigenous people) of what is today Texas was done by the Spanish.

[-] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

When Spain claimed sovereignty over the area now known as Texas, they didn't actually have de facto control.

A big chunk of modern day residents of Texas trace their lineage back to waves of German and Czech migration. One large wave showed up in the 1830's and 1840's, negotiated a treaty with the Comanches who still controlled the land, and established German-speaking settlements through much of Central Texas. So actual control over the land was established by Germans more than it was Spanish.

Even in the portions of Texas conquered by Spanish settlers have now been settled by people who don't trace back to those Spaniards. The Spanish-speaking people of Texas declared independence with the rest of Mexico and became Mexicans. Then, after the war of Texas Independence, were mostly driven out by English-speaking Texians who had migrated from America (and largely trace back to to English, Scottish, or Irish migrants).

So no, modern day Texans are more German than they are Spanish. Just because the Spanish were the first to do it doesn't mean that they or their descendants actually held the land in the centuries that followed.

[-] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago

Okay, I misread the original claim, my bad.

However, the majority of Texans according to the 2020 census is of latin/hispanic ethnicity (40.2%), followed by 39.8% white.
I don't know what US americans need to claim any descent or ancestry, but I have a feeling that more people would claim spanish than german.

[-] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

That's fair, you're probably right.

Still, my original reason for making a comment is probably true, too: the actual displacement of Native Americans from Texas probably mostly happened at the hands of European Americans who weren't Spanish, because the Spanish were themselves displaced before Texas was "settled" by European Americans.

[-] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 days ago

Spain is Europe, too!

In the end, all of the European colonists played a role in the genocide against native americans. And my remark mostly was just a snarky reminder that it wasn't uninhabitated land that was settled.

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