[stimulate]

Your wrong, it belonged to Spain. The Mexican Government had possesson for about 75 years before selling its territory to the United States.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

"Your wrong, it belonged to Spain. The Mexican Government had possesson for about 75 years before selling its territory to the United States."

And you are right!!! Thanks!!

Funny, but from reading some of the responses here to this thread.. I got the feeling some people didn't really read this article!!

[CatoRenasci]

Obviously, none of you went to California public schools in the Golden Age of the 1950's.

California was first settled by the Spanish, the first Mission, San Diego, was built in 1776.

Alta California was a province of New Spain until Mexico became independent in 1821! That's right, 1821.

Mexico lost Alta California (what is now the state of California) to the United States as a result of its crushing defeaat in the Mexican war in 1848.

Mexico only controlled California for TWENTY SEVEN YEARS sports fans, 27 lousy years!

Mexico's claim to this country is extremely tenuous historically. All of these LaRaza and MeCha idiots-and that's what they are, I knew some of the MeCha founders at Santa Barbara in the late '60s.

The only real "native" claim would be the California Indians, who have been almost completely wiped out.