We are Texas (from the “We are America” series)

We are Texas refers to the turbulent process of annexation of Texas, the former region of Mexico, by the United States, which resulted in the war between the two countries (1846), leaving the United States victorious and in the right to annex other Mexican regions , like California, thus completing its march to the west. The image resembles a cannon or battering ram, an object used in the Old Age and in the Middle Ages to break through the gates of walled towns or castles. Phallic resemblance also refers to sexual violence, to abuse, something that refers to the violence of one country over another.