[VOATNOW1]

Mexico stole it from the American Indians. We bought it from Mexico.

[Knuckledragger]

Decedents of (Spanish) Cortez telling decedents of (Spanish) Columbus to go home. Ya, that makes sense.

I think Kennewick Man tried to tell his invaders to go home. It got him speared.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Mexico stole it from the American Indians. We bought it from Mexico.

Exactly. If anyone can claim that this land was originally theirs, it's the Native Americans who lived in what is now the western US. I'm still trying to find some speck of rational thought in the claims that a bunch of people of Central American/Spanish descent have some hereditary claim to any part of the US.

[angelanddevil2]

So was it annexed after winning a war, or was it bought?.