Back in Time

A long time ago, there was a nation that had a province on its borders, far from the capitol city. The province was settled, over time, in part by people who felt an allegiance to the neighboring country. Those people armed themselves, formed illegal militias and then declared that they were seceding from the country. The government sent in its army, which won a battle here, a skirmish there, but ended up losing the conflict to the locals. The locals first declared independence, but a few years later, they merged their new nation with the neighboring nation.

The nation with the troublesome province was Mexico. The province was Texas.

So one has to wonder why, 170 years or so later, a self-proclaimed son of Texas winds up so fervently backing the rough equivalent of Santa Ana and the Mexican Army?