Azteca, Spaniards, Mexicans. I'm starting to think the "indians" weren't killed off , yes many were, but mostly just labeled Mexican. One thing for sure is that there is no concedence " Mexicans " and native Indians are the same shade of brown.

You don’t know nothing about Texas Mexico history ain’t no Spanish people here is Mexicans you fool

Unfortunately, neither side was particularly friendly to the Mestizos. The Spanish were ruthless conquerors who spread their faith by the sword and the Anglo-Protestants, as you said, were crypto-Masonic and would later infiltrate the Catholic Church anyway. I don't think it was an accident of history that Tejanos divorced themselves from Spain. I'm more concerned about where we're going as a people now and into the future.

@@iwatchyoutube9425 That's actually not true to say Spain wasn't friendly against Mestizos. Mestizos we're legally recognized as subject of the Crown, while full blooded Indians were not. Mestizos were entitled to property, and could also inherit titles if their parents were nobility, assuming they were of legitimate relationships. The distinction in the Spanish empire was more along social class, not race. Hernan Cortez legitimized his mestizo son, and even had him enobled by the King of Spain. The descends of Moctezuma and Cortez today remain as titled aristocrats in Spain to this day.

@@randolph1917 There is nuance here. It depended on the degree of Indio blood and that had a part to play in determining your social class considering the very detailed caste categorizations the Spaniards used. In Roman History, Trajan's right hand man was a North African and Herod the Great had an adopted Ethiopian son whom he loved, but that did not mean that black people held the same status in Roman society as the European peoples did. What does it matter that the descendants of Moctezuma are titled as aristocrats when Tenochtitlan was burned and Aztec culture erased? Was some of that culture brutish and evil? Yes. But it doesn't justify the atrocities that were committed. The point is that looking up to Spain as some holy city on a hill for us to emulate or wish to return to is not the answer. This is a different land with different environmental and geographic factors. A different history and a different admixture of peoples, so it has a different destiny and that's something we should be forming and investigating for ourselves.

@@iwatchyoutube9425 No, really you're referring to the so-called "Casta Paintings", which are a forgery from the Victorian era travellers, and never had any legal backing in the Spanish empire. There were even fully recognized Amerindian Nobility, by edict of the Spanish crown, going back to Isabella the Catholic and continued by Charles V and his son Phillip II, who had the Mestizo son of Cortez as his childhood friend and court favorite.