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Celebrating Guadalupe Hidalgo Day, 2021 — Party Like It’s 1848!

By Lydia Brimelow

02/02/2021

See, earlier: VDARE.com Guadalupe Hidalgo Day Party: Celebrating America’s Conquest Of The Southwest

James Fulford: Once again, we celebrate America’s victory in what used to be called "The Mexican War" of 1848 which as Jared Taylor points out here, is not only about how America got Texas and California, but Oregon as well. Even before the Great Awokening, American schoolchildren were told that this was an "imperialistic war of aggression," which nothing to what Mexican schoolchildren are taught about it. It wasn’t. See, for example, James K. Polk And Our Just War Against Mexico, by Pat Buchanan.

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While the Cultural Marxists are busy importing festivals from other cultures irrelevant to American history (Cinco de Mayo) or instituting holy days of obligation for their saints (Martin Luther King) we need to get busy having FUN — celebrating the historic American nation.

The anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is an obvious choice. Here are the facts:

My guess is that most modern Americans are only aware of the map associated with the Treaty because of groups like Aztlan and others who wave it around as proof of their indigeneity.

In fact, the West was very thinly settled. And of the 70,000 Mexican citizens there, roughly half are estimated to have been American-born. Residents of the area were given one year to choose whether to swap citizenships from Mexico to American. And 90% chose American.

Fast forward to today’s celebrations of Guadalupe Hidalgo Day…oh wait, none exist.

That looks like a problem that needs solving! Here are a few ideas I had to kick things off:

Activities:

plucked pinata

Traditional donkey shaped pinata, or Mexican Trojan horse? You decide.

gold rush jars

"Gold Rush" themed mason jars for party drinks

Eat

Pot-o-chili

Beans or no beans? That is the question.

polkweed eggs

Caution: this side dish bites back!

I’m sure that you and yours can come up with more and better ideas. February is a miserable month anyway, and we could use a cheering up that’s a little less sugary than Valentine’s Day.

Call up a few friends, gather the kids around and celebrate!

It’s the (second) easiest way to save America.

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A native Texan, Lydia Brimelow graduated from Loyola University Chicago in 2006. She is fundraiser and office manager, lion tamer, fire extinguisher and miscellany handler at VDARE.com. She and Peter married in 2007 and have three daughters together.

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