Answer: <u><em>former Mexican territory</em></u>
The Second Amendment! :) Hope this helped!
It is true that at one point Catholics and Jews were not allowed to vote in Pennsylvania, although this was due less to racial disparities than it was to limiting immigration policies.
Those probably were freedom, independence and self-reliance. The cowboys represent brave and unflinching individuals who conquer unknown and often very dangerous new frontiers of the Wild West. They brave all the dangers with nothing but their wits and their skill with a firearm which usually is a pistol. They are free individuals in a free open space who are guided by their instincts and their morals.