What if there was a reconquista, and Americans didn’t notice until it was too late? It was all moving along quite swimmingly before the recent immigration rallies when most Americans wouldn’t have known a reconquista from a chimichanga. But the word is out thanks to those rallies where hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Hispanics filled American streets waving Mexican flags, displaying insulting banners, and making incredibly brazen demands of the country.
For anyone who hasn’t been paying attention, the reconquista is a radical movement calling for Mexico to “reconquer” America’s Southwest which proponents claim is land that was stolen from Mexico. But that’s not all. Reconquista propaganda also claims that the “stolen” land happens to sit on the territory of the ancient “Nation of Aztlan,” which was supposedly the cradle of Aztec civilization.
Hmm, that’s odd. I’m looking at a World Book Encyclopedia map of the Aztec empire as it existed at the height of its power, and it was totally confined to parts of southern Mexico, hundreds and hundreds of miles south of the Mexican-American border. Looks like this Aztlan thing can be dismissed out of hand as the nonsensical poppycock that it is.
And even if Aztlan had been real and had stretched from Cancun to Spokane, so what? The only argument that could possibly advance would be to give it all back to the Aztecs, an even more ridiculous notion.
But forget about Aztlan. Let’s get back to the idea that the American Southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico. Balderdash! The United States didn’t unjustly steal land from Mexico. Rather, land was legally ceded to the United States by Mexico through the Treaty of Guadalupe de Hidalgo which ended the Mexican-American War in 1848.
Yes, the United States won that war, and you could say that California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas were the spoils of war, but that doesn’t make it unjust. It certainly wasn’t unjust for the people who lived in those lands because it saved them from being a part of the eternally corrupt, unstable, poverty-ridden country of Mexico.
Article comments
1 - RedTard
Excellent assessment. It seems we might try giving our old oppressed minorities, native American and blacks a hand up before we start importing another one.
We brought blacks here to pick out crops once. Riots, lynchings, burnings, a civil war and 100+ years later we still haven't got over that one. (and Blacks al least learned to speak english)
If you enjoy ethnic, religous, and racial conflict, overpopulation, continual wage stagnation, permanantly skyrocketing healthcare and social services costs, and mariachi music then by all means we should continue our moronic policy of importing all of Mexico's poor.
I'm not crossing my fingers waiting for anyone to do anything, Dems are having wet dreams of another oppressed minority to stir up class hatred in, and Repubs are more interested in this quarters earnings than the fact that the southwest is being turned into an overpopulated spanish speaking shithole.
2 - ihateoreilly
I felt sympathy for "undocumented immigrants" up until the past couple months. I live in LA. What they didn't show you were people burning American flags.
3 - Bliffle
Talking about Conquest, it would have made a lot more sense for the US to invade Mexico than Iraq. And apparently the mexican population would have been happy to see us.
4 - Mark
What about the people in the areas that are to be reconquered? How is anyone going to convince them to just pick up and move?
That is a very scary yet sobering thought to me.. let people know, everyone, that in order for the "reconquista" to work, people have to pick up and move...
5 - Greg Strange
Mark, nobody has to move. As was mentioned in the article, it's all about the demographics of immigration and birth rates. If Mexicans keep coming into the Southwest, say, and if they maintain a significantly higher birth rate than Americans, eventually the Mexicans will outnumber the Americans. It's as simple as that, unless those factors change.
6 - Dave Nalle
One of the interesting demographic factlets is that when the Mexicans get here to the US, within a generation or two their rate of reproduction drops to that of the general population.
Dave
7 - troll
oh no - !
shades of the Great Salt Peter conspiracy...or is it the fabric softener
troll
8 - Magadi Manus
Mexicans are taking back wht they lost 150 years ago. They are trying to do much more then that... they are trying to create a spiritual "aztlan"... This will heal the wounds of wounded Aztec civilization.
9 - STM
Build that wall and get potential immigrants to apply through existing legal channels like people from other countries have to. Governments have a right to control the number of immigrants coming to a country.
It is not racist to suggest that too much immigration can unsettle the fabric (softener) of a society. It is a process that needs to be quite carefully controlled, and has nothing to do with the colour of a person's skin.
Or do what we do here in Australia ... keep illegal immigrants in detention, have the government fairly review their cases to see whether they are genuine refugees or just people who want to own their own car and earn a decent quid, and send home those who don't meet the criteria.
Anyone who is a genuine refugee, or can put a case for hardship or danger if they return home, should be allowed to stay. The rest are just queue jumpers who are trying to take advantage of our good natures and really should have no rights at all - apart from their legal right to be treated fairly - in this debate.
10 - Reconquistador
The United States of AZTLAN
~Califaztlan,Califas-[California]
~Ariztlan,Ariza-[Arizona]
~Nevaztlan,Nevaz-[Nevada]
~Utaztlan,Utaz-[Utah]
~Coloraztlan-[Colorado]
~Tejaztlan,Tejas-[Texas]
~Kansaztlan-[Kansas]
~Oklaztlan,Oklas-[Oklahoma]
11 - Dr Dreadful
Gesundheit.
12 - ffff
yes let me tell you something gringo. mexico wons its struggle for indpedence started in 1810 and and finished in 1821. mexico won a bloody guerrilla war. mexico was exahusted, and bankrupt.then the fuckeng gringos took texas cowardly and illegaly entering texas. (like today we enter texas what ironic)then the mexian american war came the usa a more staple country and powerful country just simply took advantage of a weaker young country that had a big future yall won and we had no choice to give all that land, becuase we were scared that you wouldnt want more duhh. for me that unjust and cowardly if youre think youre so tough why dont you go fight a war against russia or iran. you just pick on weaker countrys. so the point we dont fucken cared if this is the usa we come here illegaly or legally yall cant stop us so get used to seeing spainsh everywhere, becuase mostly likely your going to be the minoriy in 30 years. i guarenteed you
13 - roger nowosielski
Don't worry, ffff. The situation in US is deteriorating quickly, so much so that it's no longer a viable propositions to many of the Mexicans to be coming here, legally or illegally. It's becoming a moot point.