Not making excuses but just so you know why so many of us are so ignorant of our history: Texas was, until a few days ago, completely controled by unhinged conservatives. They insisted on getting batshit crazy textbooks. For example, people in the US get textbooks describing the Civil War as “The War of Northern Agression” and portray it as not about the South fighting to keep slavery and force Northern states to enforce their runaway slave laws but rather some other complete bullshit. Texas is the biggest textbook consumer in the country so publishers try to put as much of the Texas appeasement as possible into books for the wntire country, rather than incur the expense if maintaining multiple editions. Tens of millions (maybe hubdreds of millions) of kids over the last few decades have been taught absolute crap at school. It’s sad and scary and frustrating and I’m hopeful that it’s finally hoing to change.