Newsflash to these idiots. First we took the land in a war,second we paid for it, hence the term Mexican Cession, third, if NM wants to go back to being part of a third-world hellhole instead of the most innovative on earth, be my guest. Will anybody miss Senators Domenici and Bingaman??
Or Governor Richardson
They realize this. They're fighting the second Mexican American War, and given the response of our political "leaders" to date, they've won the intial battles.
Since they went for Bush in 2004 I would say they don't want to.
When they speak of New Mexico, they are talking of the area known as New Mexico under Spanish rule- when a good chunk of Texas, all of Arizona, part of Utah, Nevada, and Colorado- and I am not sure but i think it also included California originally,it was all known as New Mexico. They are not referring to the present day US state of New Mexico.
I live in the US State of New Mexico and I don't plan on becoming part of Mexico. I have heard very little of this type of talk here, and when you do it is either an illegal or a recent legal immigrant. Our hispanic population is made up mostly of people who are descendents of the Spanish colonists and natives. They are very patriotic people who are more loyal to the US than most people you will ever meet. A very large percentage serve in the military, and in fact many of the Bataan death march were from New Mexico.
I would agree to sending most of our politicians to Mexico, but this is really a wonderful state, and I don't want to be part of Mexico.