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[Kenny Bunk]

One of the best descriptions of Mexican California was written by Richard Henry Dana in "Two Years Before the Mast." A Harvard man taking a break in his education for health reasons, Dana worked as an ordinary seaman. His ship traded goods from the United States with the California missions' and ranchos for cow hides. They traded at the all the ports, calling at San Diego Bay, San Pedro Bay, Santa Barbara Channel, Monterey Bay, San Francisco Bay and the chain of missions in between. Written in the late 1830's it describes a California with perhaps about 5,000 non-Indian Mexicans, that is to say more or less "European-type Mexicans" in the whole territory. San Francisco, Monterrey, San Diego, and LA were not much more than crossroads villages.

Modern development of California began in 1849's Gold Rush and was an American, not a Mexican phenomenon. Like Texas, it broke from Mexico and became a Republic before joining the Union.

Aztlán is a Mexican fairy story. Neither the Mexicans or the Spaniards before them had more than the barest scattering of settlers in the Southwest they sold to the US and barely scratched the surface of its potential.

BTW, you'd be hard-pressed to find any group more opposed to massive immigration from Mexico than the descendants of the few original Spanish settlers in places like New Mexico. The Spaniards ... and then the Mexicans after them neglected the settlers and left them to wither on the vine, crushing any attempt they made to assert their rights. The Mexicans even crushed the missions, a key economic engine of their colonies.

Return? Bullshiite.