It was never yours in the first place. It was an empty, mostly lifeless land populated by a few ragged Indian tribes with no concept of self-determination, whose populations had their hearts cut out on the altars of local warlords with cruel regularity. The fantasy that the Southwest was some sort of "Brown Nirvana" before the white man came and stole it away is one of the stupidest fictions ever to gain popularity among the Socialist Left.
It was never yours in the first place. It was an empty, mostly lifeless land populated by a few ragged Indian tribes with no concept of self-determination, whose populations had their hearts cut out on the altars of local warlords with cruel regularity. The fantasy that the Southwest was some sort of "Brown Nirvana" before the white man came and stole it away is one of the stupidest fictions ever to gain popularity among the Socialist Left.
Just needed to be said again