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To: SilentZ who wrote (341367)	6/26/2007 11:56:13 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572095

We didn't actually steal California. We paid $18 million for it. Chump change by today's standards but back in 1848 it was a lot of money: We bought it after defeating them in a war that we pulled them into for the sake of getting that land. That was during the period of manifest destiny. True, but we didn't steal CA as you suggest. Stealing would have been having a war with Mexico and then keeping CA as one of the spoils of that war. And truth be known.......it wasn't so much Mexico that settled CA but rather Spain. When Mexico got its independence in 1821, it couldn't afford the upkeep on the CA missionaries that Spain had established, and was, in reality, shutting them down. In other words, its influence in CA was on the wane. All of this detail gets lost in the discussion of Aztlan. Having said all that, I find it extremely offensive that Democratic politicians are encouraging their constituencies to think in terms of recapturing Aztlan. I hope you don't think their behavior is acceptable.