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Jun 11 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
The Mexican population of the US Southwest was 83,727 in 1850. This is because we decided against annexing populated areas on the grounds that Mexicans were not fit for self-govt. The modern Mexican pop in the US ~entirely descended from post-1900 immigration, >90% post-WWII. Image
3/4 of this tiny population (outnumbered by more than twice as many Indians, because Mexico did not actually control this territory, hence inviting Anglo settlers) was in New Mexico.
In 1900, Mexicans were 7% of the US Southwest. There was significant Mexican immigration 1900-1930 (followed by mass deportations under Hoover, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower). Even by 1950, it was only 10%. Image
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Source: jstor.org/stable/90017481

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Some excerpts from "India's War: WWII and the Making of Modern South Asia" by Srinath Raghavan, published in 2016. Image
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Thread with excerpts from "The Communist Conquest of China," a 1952 book by a French intelligence officer. I read this because, after reading several books on the diplomatic/political side of things, I wanted a military history of the Chinese Civil War. Image
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This terrible historical analogy gets brought up all the time. A couple of thousand world-class geniuses deliberately recruited (/enslaved for Paperclip) is not remotely comparable to "skilled immigration" in the US today, which is millions of mediocrities. Image
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