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.MEXIFORNIA Victor Davis Hanson 92MEXIFORNIA Victor Davis Hanson 93corrupt and tended to be systematic and public, not secretive,haphazard and capricious.Our police could be corrupt, but pettybribery was the exception, not the rule, and they did not assas-sinate reformers with regularity and impunity.There was nothingquite like the mordida in America—the “bite” put on citizens byevery government official; those caught taking money were usuallyshamed and retired or jailed.Our police today are not escortingcocaine dealers and using squad cars to provide security for heroinsmugglers on a regular basis.Our religions were diverse—from eccentric Christianfundamentalists and persecuted Mormons to almost secular Uni-tarians and Congregationalists—not monolithic parishes.Themany branches of Protestantism taught various and sometimesquite contrary doctrines concerning God’s grace in this world andthe next.Catholicism was more likely to suggest that the ills andinequities of this world would be redressed in the next; in the daysbefore liberation theology, the grasping rich would get their duewhen they faced God, rather than be held accountable in the pres-ent.Under the monopoly of the conservative Catholic Church inMexico, an entire culture was taught that sex was for procreation,and the more children, the more souls that could be saved.Incontrast, the American Protestant tendency was to regard manyoffspring as requiring too much time and investment from parents,siblings and society at large—an idea that Catholics consideredsilly and selfish as well as blasphemous.According to the educational theory that once held sway,America was the creation of Jefferson, Hamilton, Franklin andAdams; Mexico was the legacy of Hernan Cortés and PedroAlvarado.Pilgrims were not the same as conquistadors, or so ourteachers in their pride maintained.We broke away from liberalreforming British parliamentarians; Mexico much later and withmore difficulty separated from a more authoritarian Spanish mon-archy.North America was opened to mass immigration; Spaintried to keep all but the Spanish out of Latin America.We were a
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