The reason Texas is part of the USA is that Mexico made slavery illegal.

Remember the Alamo? A lot of white people don't know is that what the "brave" people in the Alamo were fighting for was slavery.

That's also why it took two years after the civil war ended for enforcement of anti-slavery in Texas. (it wasn't because of slow communication, as is told in revisionist histories, it was because white people willfully defied the law).

Freedom is always worth fighting for.

@joelle Also worth noting that it wasn't the white guys Americans are told about that freed Texas. It was mostly latino and native Tejanos who did the work.

In reward for their work, they were murdered and driven from their lands by the white Texans after the war was over.