Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-5986080-20130117020300/@comment-32656-20130118105653

Cour is right, to some degree. There was indeed a majority that wanted that. And, funny enough, the minority that didn't want it got want they advocated within two years. Go figure.

But, to add to that, Texas was up to its proverbial eyeballs in debt. That was a lot of why they did it, too.

Moreover, Texas had already tried multiple times to get admitted as a state prior to 1845.

Mexico did not really recognize Texas as not being theirs until they were defeated in the Mexican-American War. And their nationalists still demand it back sometimes. No way they do anything like that. Nor would Texas agree to it, or the French and Brits do that. The French just wouldn't do it, and the Brits actually supported Texas.

Texas, being realistic, couldn't keep Mexico out of its borders. The Mexican military did it twice, more or less unimpeded, in 1842.