BLASPHEMERS
I'm not going to weigh into the fight over California, New Mexico, Arizona. I've never been a resident that tracked my lineage through any of those states. But Absolut Vodka had best check their history if they believe for a second that anyone from Texas is going to tolerate their little play on "cutesy" with the map above.
Non Texans get tired of us saying it - but it doesn't make it any less true.
Texas won it's OWN independence from Mexico and sovereignly governed itself as a NATION for quite some time and quite effectively before becoming apart of the continental USA.
We shed blood at the Alamo - in a valiant but losing cause to General Santa Anna - only to weaken Mexican forces enough that in only a matter of days we routed Mexican forces.
For Absolut to believe that Mexicans even had a prayer of a chance of THINKING about Texas as some sort of Reconquista territory is a matter of sheer ignorance.
Texas was the only state that could have successfully survived as an independent republic between the powerful United States, and the seemingly ever impoverished Mexican territory.
They are also the only state at present that has more than 80% of the natural resources found in the rest of the entirety of the United States - within their own borders. In other words - they could put a fence up around the border of Texas and Texans would keep on thriving just fine!
Absolut is absolutely mistaken, and if this were another time, in another era... if they dared to step foot in the land of the Lone Star, they might not have escaped without having their necks stretched.