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To: aladin who wrote (133130)	8/18/2005 9:23:30 AM
From: briskit	Read Replies (4) of 793706

Before the arrival of the Spanish, the Americas were populated by indigenous peoples, not aboriginal. Mexico was indeed populated by Mexicans. The Aztecs were a tribe from Arizona or someplace near that migrated to Central Mexico 1,500? years ago and ended up ruling MX city and up close to the now TX border. It's been called Mexico thousands of years. The Spanish, Cortez, defeated them in the 1520 range. When Mexico drove out the Spanish, what had been Spanish lands for 300 years was no doubt considered by the indigenous peoples, but also the new mixed Spanish/Mexican and rebel Mexican Spanish, to now be Mexico again. They had just won it back in battle. To say that land belonged to Mexico 15 years doesn't quite cut it. Mexico was forced to "sell" and cede land to the US. That's why the Mexicans do not consider our possession of that land to have been an honorable acquisition, and still have an idealized hope to see their country restored some day. I am not a Mexican or a Texican by the way,even tho I live in TX. But talk of us "annexing" more Mexican land, with all good intentions, is answered on the other side of the discussion something along the lines I mentioned.

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