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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (147234)5/16/2002 1:34:02 PM
From: combjelly   of 1584978
 
"I thought we paid for TX, NM, AZ and CA all at the same time."

Well, Texas and most of New Mexico came in as a result of the Texas Revolution. It seems there was a certain amount of controversy over exactly where the borders were, and in 1850 the US paid Texas for the land it claimed in New Mexico and other areas.
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