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.
Excellent point, which goes double for Mexico itself. Except that Mexico still has significant populations of Indians, many of whom are bilingual or even monolingual in an Indian tongue like Mixtec or Nahuatl. The well-known figure of the 1910 Revolution in Mexico, Emiliano Zapata, was a full blooded Indian and more comfortable speaking Nahuatl than Spanish. Let the "MeCha" brats go do something about the past and continuing expropriation of Mexico's first peoples by the rich, white criollo ruling class there in Mexico before they blab any more about a mythical land named "Aztlan."