The federal govt is at present on the path to surrender in the SW, but it may not happen very smoothly. There are millions of hardcore gringo cowboys in the SW who will not meekly pack up and leave. It will be a bloodbath, it will be Bosnia X 100.
That's an understatement in search of a world title. If events hold to their present trend, it will be a blood-bath.
And it will not be confined to merely parts of Texas and California, plus Arizona and New Mexico. Aztlan is not going to be content with that small a territory. They will want all of California and all of the west coast to Vancouver (how far inland I'm not sure). They will demand all of Nevada and at least part of Utah (besides Arizona and New Mexico). Aztlan will want Colorado at least south of Denver; all of Texas; all of Oklahoma; and Kansas, at least to El Dorado, maybe Abilene.
Running east from Texas, Aztlan will demand all of Louisiana (there goes the mouth of the Mississippi, putting all of the upper Midwest at the mercy of Aztlan), and a strip running east through the panhandles of Mississippi and Alabama on into the panhandle of Florida (or maybe all of Florida - what the Hell; might as well while we're at it). At one time, all of the above territory was claimed by Spain, much of it by Mexico, and much of it actually held with varying degrees of firmness at some time or another by one or the other of them, or both. If you believe it is a fantasy to think Aztlan will want 'it all back' then you need to go to DC and consort with the other morons.
It strikes me that the above statement could easily be misconstrued to be an attack on yourself. It actually was meant as a humorous dig at . . . well, the morons in DC, [grin]
I apologize for my failure to adequately and properly express myself, thereby avoiding an insult where none was intended.