California as you point out, was not a slave state. None of this is to repay for ouractual sins as an entity. But this beggars the OBVIOUS question: What of our actual sins against the Californio Ranchers many who were swindled out of their land? Oddly there is not yet a movement for them. Perhaps it is taht the Californio.s taught the anglos that Sonorans and other poor Mexicans were perhaps not quite human...Real racial history is complex.
California as you point out, was not a slave state. None of this is to repay for ouractual sins as an entity. But this beggars the OBVIOUS question: What of our actual sins against the Californio Ranchers many who were swindled out of their land? Oddly there is not yet a movement for them. Perhaps it is taht the Californio.s taught the anglos that Sonorans and other poor Mexicans were perhaps not quite human...Real racial history is complex.