...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back

134 statements
24 feature instances
30 referencing feature instances

Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back	type	FeatureClass
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back	label	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back	page	MexicoCalledTheyWantTexasBack
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back	comment	Some Mexicans came to America, and for some, America came to them. In 1836 the Republic of Texas separated from its previous Mexican rule. After spending the better part of their one sovereign decade attempting to join the United States, Texas was annexed by the USA in 1845. The United States offered Texas security, stable rule, and economic survivability, as many had families in the United States and feared that Mexico had plans to strike once more at Texas, hence this trope. The United States also would protect the settlers' right to own slaves — these settlers, first invited to Texas by the Mexican government after agreeing to follow Mexican law, balked at Mexico's ban on slavery in 1829, which these slave-owning settlers very much disagreed with. The new Texas immigrants from the United States became known as Texicans while the original Hispanic locals were called Tejanos. Texas (or Tejas as it was called at the time) was originally granted a one-year exemption from the 1829 ban, but Mexican president Anastasio Bustamante ordered that all slaves be freed in the law of April 6th, 1830 which also prevented further emigration to Texas from the United States and increased import taxes. This law didn't stop further immigration as Americans continued to settle Texas illegally. To circumvent the law, many Anglo colonists converted their slaves into indentured servants for life. The slavery aspect is something Texans unsurprisingly tend to gloss over when discussing their state's history. After Santa Anna overthrew president Anastasio Bustamante in 1832 the Mexican government started giving concessions to Texas that included a repeal on the emigration ban, more representation to Texas, and the right to trial by jury. However, Santa Anna had other plans as he overturned the 1824 constitution in 1835 and ordered all state legislatures and militias to be disbanded. The Tejano governor of Texas refused and when Mexican authorities attempted to seize a cannon used for defense against Comanche raiders it led to the Battle of Gonzales which sparked the Texas Revolution. In 1846, the United States Congress declared war on Mexico following a border skirmish between a Mexican cavalry detachment and a U.S. patrol. Long story short, the US army fought all the way to Mexico City, Mexico lost the fight, and the Mexican government signed the Guadalupe-Hidalgo treaty, in which Mexico transferred to the USA the territories that are nowadays covered by California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and parts of Colorado, Kansas, Wyoming, and Oklahoma — that is, around 60% of its territory (though only a very small part of its population or gross national income) — in exchange for the sum of 15 million dollars (accounting for inflation, that's about $390 million in 2012). This was later followed by the sale of La Mesilla / purchase of Gadsden (which contained the southern portions of present-day Arizona and New Mexico) for the purpose of building a transcontinental railroad. Needless to say, the thought of being formerly such a huge country that lost so much land supposedly means that many Mexicans have at some point dreamed of getting back the "Lost Territories". However, given that America spends about 100note As of 2020 times as much as Mexico on its military, this dream will likely go unrealized for quite some time. There is a Truth in Television aspect here, as activist groups like La Raza and MEChA have stated in their charters the goal of bringing back to Mexico much of its former land, but what if, in fiction, the USA were weakened enough (or Mexico made powerful enough) to make this dream come true? Thus, whenever in speculative fiction you see the United States somehow greatly weakened, or in the past before the USA became a superpower, you can pretty much be assured the back story will involve Mexico invading and conquering at least Texas and California. This is particularly ironic, because Mexico's economy right now is smaller than both Texas and California.note In fact, California's economy is more than double the size of Mexico's; should Mexico hypothetically succeed this very moment in recovering just these two states, the Mexican economy would practically quadruple its size, but then again, it IS Texas. For the same reason, in the event of the United States breaking apart it's probably more plausible for California and/or Texas to take over Mexico than for the reverse to happen. See also Divided States of America. Sister trope of Russia Called; They Want Alaska Back. May happen as a result of opportunism during a Second American Civil War. Eurabia, the idea of Europe being taken over by Muslim immigrants, is the loose European version of this trope. See also revanchism and irredentism which were actual, primarily European, examples of this phenomena.
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back	fetched	2023-07-03T21:01:03Z
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back	parsed	2023-07-03T21:01:03Z
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back	processingComment	Dropped link to AlternateHistory: Not an Item - FEATURE
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back	processingComment	Dropped link to HeWhoFightsMonsters: Not an Item - FEATURE
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back	processingComment	Dropped link to HeartsOfIronIV: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back	processingComment	Dropped link to PatrioticFervor: Not an Item - FEATURE
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back	processingComment	Dropped link to ReligionOfEvil: Not an Item - FEATURE
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back	processingComment	Dropped link to ValuesDissonance: Not an Item - CAT
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back	processingUnknown	HeartsOfIronIV
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back	isPartOf	DBTropes
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_1e82ffe9	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_1e82ffe9	comment	Its spiritual sequel 2300 AD had Mexico still holding Los Angeles, Arizona, and New Mexico, but not Texas.
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_1e82ffe9	featureApplicability	1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_1e82ffe9	featureConfidence	1.0
2300 AD (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_1e82ffe9
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_222a8847	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_222a8847	comment	A news story near the beginning of RoboCop (1987) describes rebels in Mexico rattling the U.S. borders.
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_222a8847	featureApplicability	1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_222a8847	featureConfidence	1.0
RoboCop (1987)	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_222a8847
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_27426b2c	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_27426b2c	comment	In the comedy Viva Max!, the eponymous General Maximillian is driven to near insanity when the Mexican woman he has a crush on spurns him and insults his capacity as a military officer. He assumes that, naturally, the best way to impress her is to recapture the Alamo.
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_27426b2c	featureApplicability	1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_27426b2c	featureConfidence	1.0
Viva Max!	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_27426b2c
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_41963414	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_41963414	comment	The War Against the Chtorr. Southern Mexico provides staging areas for an "Army of Economic Liberation" to invade an ostensibly demilitarised United States. The invaders get their ass handed to them due to secret technology the US has been hiding. When Mexico subsequently collapses, many other nations think it's not a coincidence.
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_41963414	featureApplicability	1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_41963414	featureConfidence	1.0
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_41963414
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_6059ad6b	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_6059ad6b	comment	Inverted in xkcd; a handful of satellite operators debating the situation with Israel and Palestine when the sat is scheduled for a check-in over that general area get shut down by their boss changing the coordinates to Oklahoma, which another technician calls "Occupied North Texas". Leading to the boss sighing and just telling him to shut up.
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_6059ad6b	featureApplicability	1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_6059ad6b	featureConfidence	1.0
xkcd (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_6059ad6b
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_67a513b8	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_67a513b8	comment	In the Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg mod for Hearts of Iron, if the Second American Civil War breaks out Mexico has the option of seizing the opportunity to try and reclaim the lost border territories.
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_67a513b8	featureApplicability	1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_67a513b8	featureConfidence	1.0
Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_67a513b8
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_69ccce0e	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_69ccce0e	comment	Inverted in It Can't Happen Here. The Windrip regime invades Mexico as a means of spreading its empire and encouraging patriotism among the masses. Played with in that the regime falsely claims Mexico attacked America as justification for the war.
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_69ccce0e	featureApplicability	1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_69ccce0e	featureConfidence	1.0
It Can't Happen Here	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_69ccce0e
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_6ddef913	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_6ddef913	comment	Twilight2000. After the Soviet nuclear attack on the U.S. in 1998, Mexico invaded the southern U.S. Its spiritual sequel 2300 AD had Mexico still holding Los Angeles, Arizona, and New Mexico, but not Texas.
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_6ddef913	featureApplicability	1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_6ddef913	featureConfidence	1.0
Twilight: 2000 (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_6ddef913
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_860fb7f5	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_860fb7f5	comment	In Gentlemen Explorers, an Absurdly High-Stakes Game of poker is organized between representatives of Prussia, Mexico and the USA. The USA's stake is the territories it took off Mexico in the Mexican-American War.
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_860fb7f5	featureApplicability	1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_860fb7f5	featureConfidence	1.0
Gentlemen Explorers	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_860fb7f5
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_8bc3b088	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_8bc3b088	comment	Chase: In the episode "Repo", the criminal they are chasing believes that America stole the territory and doesn't believe in the authority of the police, making comments about it to most people he meets.
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_8bc3b088	featureApplicability	1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_8bc3b088	featureConfidence	1.0
Chase (NBC)	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_8bc3b088
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_8d87f92f	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_8d87f92f	comment	In Red Dawn (1984) Nicaragua and Communist Cuba invaded the US through Mexico after a limited nuclear strike.
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_8d87f92f	featureApplicability	1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_8d87f92f	featureConfidence	1.0
Red Dawn (1984)	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_8d87f92f
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_9c33b8ab	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_9c33b8ab	comment	Sliders: One episode featured a world where Mexico decides to take back Texas and California (possibly others as well). They get quickly thrown out of Texas, however, since "every Texas citizen owns a gun", but California cities turn into war zones.
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_9c33b8ab	featureApplicability	1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_9c33b8ab	featureConfidence	1.0
Sliders	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_9c33b8ab
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_a9570fac	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_a9570fac	comment	Since Victoria chronicles the downfall of the United States and the rise of the American successor states, this is present: As America declines and the corrupt Federal Government comes to depend more and more on minorities to support its ruthless rule, President Warner eventually agrees with Mexican nationalist leaders to establish a condominium over Texas, Arizona and Newmex. This backfires, however, as the locals rebel, and end up destroying most of the Mexican army in the ensuing war. The resultant power vacuum then allows the Aztecs to seize power in Mexico itself. Another, roughly concurrent civil war in California sees that state split. The Hispanic-dominated southern part is apparently annexed by the Mexicans, whereas the north becomes a transhumanist, culturally homosexual Silicon Valley state.
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_a9570fac	featureApplicability	1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_a9570fac	featureConfidence	1.0
Victoria	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_a9570fac
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_bcb32dc6	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_bcb32dc6	comment	In Shadowrun, Aztlan (AKA The Country Formerly Known As Mexico) invaded and conquered parts of California and Texas (both of which had split off from the U.S.).
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_bcb32dc6	featureApplicability	1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_bcb32dc6	featureConfidence	1.0
Shadowrun (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_bcb32dc6
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_c72021c5	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_c72021c5	comment	Mexico attempts to take Texas (claiming it belonged to them, even if they were centuries late) at one point in the Deus Ex Backstory, after the incident with the original NSF reveals how weak the US had become. It's not mentioned in the main plot, but it is given through in-game media. The Nameless Mod mentions it in the fan fiction shop. A Mexican-occupied Texas level was planned, but cut from development.
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_c72021c5	featureApplicability	1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_c72021c5	featureConfidence	1.0
Deus Ex (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_c72021c5
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_c8b93678	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_c8b93678	comment	Referenced in 80s Cannon-produced action film Avenging Force. The lead white supremacist's rant about liberals and communists refers to 20 million Mexicans in the United States who would just "love to rebel and join the Socialist Republic of Mexico."
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_c8b93678	featureApplicability	1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_c8b93678	featureConfidence	1.0
Avenging Force	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_c8b93678
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_c8c98633	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_c8c98633	comment	Soviet troops in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 invade via Mexico (or at least we see an Apocalypse Tank crushing a "Welcome to Texas" sign). The backstory states that Mexico is part of the World Socialist League, and the USSR faked a civil war there to justify a troop intervention — which provided them a base to invade the USA.
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_c8c98633	featureApplicability	1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_c8c98633	featureConfidence	1.0
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_c8c98633
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_d46beefd	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_d46beefd	comment	In the Wild Wild West movie, Mexico was one of the backers of Loveless's plan in exchange for the return of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. That's right, along existing state borders, not the pre-1848 one.
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_d46beefd	featureApplicability	1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_d46beefd	featureConfidence	1.0
Wild Wild West	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_d46beefd
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_d8d79afa	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_d8d79afa	comment	In Escape from L.A., all of Latin America has been united under the Shining Path and is about to invade the US. Revolutionary agent Cuervo Jones kidnaps and brainwashes the President's daughter in order to seize control of the "Sword of Damocles" EMP satellite superweapon, and plans to use it to lead off the war. Snake Plissken is sent into the ruins of Los Angeles in order to retrieve the weapon and stop the invasion.
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_d8d79afa	featureApplicability	1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_d8d79afa	featureConfidence	1.0
Escape from L.A.	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_d8d79afa
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_de3de959	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_de3de959	comment	Interestingly, averted in Incompatible System. While a few of the southern states are now allied with Latin America after a near-World War III had caused a severe case of Divided States of America, Texas is proudly, crazily and loudly independent.
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_de3de959	featureApplicability	-1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_de3de959	featureConfidence	1.0
Incompatible System (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_de3de959
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_de8ae019	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_de8ae019	comment	The epilogue to Star Carrier: Deep Space reveals that, as Earth enters its sixth world war, Mexico (along with Honduras) has seceded from the United States of North America and invaded California and Texas.
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_de8ae019	featureApplicability	1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_de8ae019	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Carrier	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_de8ae019
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_e5c5bc22	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_e5c5bc22	comment	Inverted in GURPS Cyberworld: the US occupies much of Mexico (though there are still border controls in place to keep Mexican third-class citizens from traveling to the "Upper 48").
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_e5c5bc22	featureApplicability	1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_e5c5bc22	featureConfidence	1.0
GURPS (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_e5c5bc22
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_e5d6f40d	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_e5d6f40d	comment	In H.A.W.X., the eponymous squadron flies to Ciudad Juarez due to Mexican rebels going into the United States to escape retribution from government forces.
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_e5d6f40d	featureApplicability	1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_e5d6f40d	featureConfidence	1.0
H.A.W.X. (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_e5d6f40d
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_fd289bb0	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_fd289bb0	comment	Revolution: Mexico seems to have weathered the Blackout a bit better than the US and is considered a serious threat to an independent Texas. With 70% of its troops stationed on the Texas-Mexico border, Texas stays out of the war between the Monroe Republic and the Georgia Federation and is later eager to make peace with the emergent Patriots. Based on a map shown in season 1 Mexico does seem to have lost Baja to an independent California but this is not explored.
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_fd289bb0	featureApplicability	1.0
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_fd289bb0	featureConfidence	1.0
Revolution	hasFeature	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_fd289bb0

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back	processingCategory2	Alternate History Tropes
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back	processingCategory2	Speculative Fiction Tropes
Second American Civil War (Fanfic) / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Avenging Force / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Escape from L.A. / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
RoboCop (1987) / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Viva Max! / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Wild Wild West / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
The Hohenzollern Empire (Lets Play) / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Fire on the Mountain / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
It Can't Happen Here / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Northwest Front / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Star Carrier / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
The Riftwar Cycle / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
The Second Renaissance / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
War Day / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
We'll Meet Again / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
JamesKPolk	seeAlso	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Price Of Wisdom (Roleplay) / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Revolution / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Shadowrun (Tabletop Game) / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
2300 AD (Tabletop Game) / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Twilight: 2000 (Tabletop Game) / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Deus Ex (Video Game) / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
FÃ¼hrerreich: Legacy of the Great War (Video Game) / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Hearts of Iron (Video Game) / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg (Video Game) / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Red World (Video Game) / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back
Terra Invicta (Video Game) / int_2ec71371	type	Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back

Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.