Welcome back to another episode of Hayden's History Hour.

I'm your host, Hayden Daniel.

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We're not joined by any guests today,

but we are going over a very interesting topic

that has a lot of implications for today's politics, the Mexican session, meaning the land

gained by the United States after the Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848. So the issue of the ownership of the American Southwest and the West generally has become

quite a bit of a hot button topic during the last year or so of Trump's administration.

If you remember the protests in Los Angeles last year or so of Trump's administration. If you remember the protests in Los Angeles last year,

many protesters were waving Mexican flags and claiming that they belonged there,

that they were not, in fact, illegal, and that no one was illegal

because Mexico used to own California

and the rest of the American Southwest.

And more recently we saw at the Super Bowl halftime show with Bad Bunny bringing out

not just the Mexican flag, but dozens of other flags from Central and South America

and proclaiming, together we are America,

pretty blatantly making the point that they're also supposed to be here and have a claim to American land.

But that's not really how America saw it when it was gaining that land from Mexico after the Mexican-American War.

And the land that we took from Mexico, which is today, South Texas, parts of Oklahoma, parts of Colorado, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.

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