Thursday, March 24, 1825. State Colonization Law of March 24, 1825.

The Mexican legislature passed the State Colonization Law of March 24, 1825, allowing immigrants to take up agricultural lands in Texas for a nominal fee, provided that they took oath promising to abide by the federal and state constitutions, to worshiped according to the Catholic faith, and to display sound moral principles and good conduct. 

Immigrants arrived, but they were largely Protestant (Southern) Americans, violated Mexican slavery laws, and demonstrated very little loyalty to Mexico.

Perhaps they should be deported.

There are a lot of lessons in this story.

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Saturday, March 19, 1825. Fort Vancouver opens.

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Cliffnotes of the Zeitgeist, 65th Edition. Toilet Paper Day, Swedish immigration and emigration, Wyoming trending on Twitter.

1.  Today's day:

August 26th – National Toilet Paper Day

2.  For the first time in fifty years, more people are leaving Sweden than entering it.  

3.  Wyoming was trending this morning on Twitter for no apparent reason.  Well, two reasons.  One was the recent grass fires, which seem to be getting a lot of attention, and the other were complaints about the electoral college.

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Cliffnotes of the Zeitgeist, 64th Edition. Things authentic and important.

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Thursday, May 10, 1923. The Chicago Tribune notes The Great Migration.

The epic mass exodus of African Americans from the South had been on for a decade, and it was on in such numbers now that it could not be ignored.

Up until 1910, 90% of the black population of the United States lived in the South, a legacy of slavery.  Starting in the 1910s, after twenty years of the restoration of die hard segregation following the collapse of Reconstruction, followed by the rise of Southern racism in the form of The Lost Cause myth, and aided by improved transportation, they began to leave for Northern cities.  European immigration collapsed during World War One, and employment opportunities increased, boosting the departure rate.

The massive social trend continued up into the early 1970s, by which time it had transformed the ethnic map of the country.