the men who founded this state broke from mexico because they needed slavery to be legal to make a fortune in the cotton business!
just adding a little historical perspective--
i've got new information--
1963, they dam up the north branch to make lake pescadero. a whole little town disappears--
people had been living in perdido for over a hundred years. mexicans and chicanos are deported, evicted, moved forcibly out of their houses by our local hero, buddy deeds, and his department--
families were split apart, a whole community was destroyed--
--and who ends up with lakefront property bought for a fraction of the market price? buddy deeds, sheriff of rio county, and his chief deputy, hollis pogue.
look, i'm not after you, sam. i just think people in town ought to know the full story on buddy deeds.