In light of Romney's recent comments regarding his desire to be 'Mexican'

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In light of Romney's recent comments regarding his desire to be 'Mexican':

"My dad, as you probably know, was the governor of Michigan and was the head of a car company. But he was born in Mexico ... and had he been born of Mexican parents, I'd have a better shot at winning this. But he was unfortunately born to Americans living in Mexico. He lived there for a number of years. I mean, I say that jokingly, but it would be helpful to be Latino."

I thought it would be 'helpful' to know why Romney's father was born in Mexico... Why do I think this is important? Because Romney and his Spanish speaking son are using his connection to Mexico to sell himself to certain voter blocks, and only telling part of the story..... Here is some wiki and an article explaining Romney's Mexican history:

Wiki: Miles Park Romney

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Park_Romney

Miles Park Romney (August 18, 1843-March 1904) was born in Nauvoo, Illinois, the son of Miles Romney. [1][2] He was the president of the St. George Social Hall Company and the St. George Dramatic Association, and also served as a chief of police, attorney-at-law, newspaper editor, and architect. [3] Romney's son was Gaskell Romney, his grandson was George W. Romney and his great-grandson is Mitt Romney. [4][5] Romney married Hannah Hood Hill on May 10, 1862, at Salt Lake City, Utah. He also married Catharine Jane Cottam. [6]

Miles Park Romney became a builder, moved to Utah, married one woman, did mission work in England, returned to Utah and married another woman on orders from Brigham Young. He became quite prominent in the Mormon community, building Brigham Young’s home and helping to defeat a congressional anti-polygamy law. [7] Miles Park Romney and his three wives and various children were then sent to settle St. Johns, Ariz., as part of the church leadership’s plan to settle across the entire American West. St. Johns was not particularly welcoming to the Mormon newcomers, and after various threats to hang the lot of them, the polygamous Romney family was told to try Mexico instead. A polygamist, [8][9] in the aftermath of the Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act of 1882 (later amended by the Edmunds–Tucker Act, 1887), Romney, on April 7, 1885, joined a party leaving Arizona to find land outside the U.S., in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, on which his family could settle, free from fear of his arrest. [10] Romney died on February 26, 1904, in Colonia Dublan, Mexico. Romney's five wives, in order of marriage, were Hannah Hood Hill (1862), Caroline "Carrie" Lambourne (1867), Catherine Jane Cottam (1873), Alice Marie "Annie" Woodbury (1877) and Emily "Millie" Henrietta Eyring Snow (1897).

Wiki: Mormon colonies in Mexico

The Mormon colonies in Mexico are settlements located near the Sierra Madre mountains in northern Mexico which were established by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints beginning in 1885. Many of the original colonists came to Mexico due to federal attempts to curb and prosecute polygamy in the United States. The towns making up the colonies were originally situated in the states of Chihuahua and Sonora, and were all within roughly 200 miles of the US border. By the early 20th century, many of these were relatively prosperous. However, in the summer of 1912, the colonies were evacuated due to anti-American sentiment during the Mexican Revolution and many of their citizens left for the United States and never returned. Some colonists did eventually return to their settlements, but today only Colonia Juárez and Colonia Dublan in the Casas Grandes river valley remain active. More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_colonies_in_Mexico

Article: Mitt Romney’s Mexican Roots

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/mitt-romneys-mexican-roots/

During a convention that spotlighted nine Latino speakers, featured at least four speaking in Spanish and offered an array of Latino-focused events, Mitt Romney touted his own Mexican roots in a autobiographical video broadcast to the Republican National Convention just hours before Romney himself took the stage.

The GOP nominee touted his immigrant grandparents as “refugees of a revolution.” But unlike many of the speakers that came before him, Romney’s grandparents did not seek refuge in America, they fled it.

In 1885, Romney’s great-grandfather, Miles Park Romney, fled to Mexico to escape America’s anti-polygamy laws. Along with a group of his fellow Mormons, Miles Park Romney, who had four wives and 30 children, settled in Chihuahua, Mexico, where polygamy was still legal.