Now, suppose that many of the white residents, whose families have lived in the Southwest for generations, who do not endorse the actions of their State legislatures, and want to remain American citizens, leave their homes and join the U.S. Armed Forces and fight to restore what they consider to be the legitimate government.

First of all, you make it sound more like a racial issue than an insurrection against government, if these Hispanics were citizens of the USA, then you do them also an injustice by calling them Hispanics and not Americans.

Carolyn