Sorry - not saying that Florida or Texas don't have the same experience - just that Stanford should know better being literally in a former Spanish colony.

Florida seems pretty significant to me re: Spain's colonization in the Americas. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Florida

> Spanish Florida (Spanish: La Florida) was the first major European land claim and attempted settlement in North America during the European Age of Discovery.

Spain also lost Florida in part, by conquest (to Andrew Jackson). Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminole_Wars

> The Seminole Wars were the longest and most expensive, in both human and financial cost to the United States, of the American Indian Wars.

Thought ultimately Congress did buy Florida as a sort of fait accompli when it became clear they couldn't hold it. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams%E2%80%93On%C3%ADs_Treaty

> The Adams–Onís Treaty [is] a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain.

Interestingly, less than half a year later, Mexico finally (re-)gained its independence from Spain.

Lots of Spain colonization efforts unraveled in a relatively short amount of time, historically.

Yes - sorry - my point was more that Stanford IS IN a former colony and should know better on some of this stuff (not that Florida isn't a former holding etc.)

No worries, all good.