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Slight correction. The Mayflower landed in 1620. Jamestown, the 1st permanent English settlement, was in 1607. I invite you to come to "the birthplace of America", the Old Dominion, the great state of Virginia and celebrate with us, our 400th birthday in 2007. Are you THAT dimwitted enough not to realize that Texas, California and the whole southwest were not part of Mexico at the time?

FYI. I am not a dimwit.

I only corrected your assertion about the Mayflower.

I know there were Spaniards were here and most likely the Danes were here before them.

You owe me an apology, boy.

bfree said, ""And the vast majority of Mexican Americans in this country qualify the same way. Many of the families were here before the Mayflower even launched.""

I asked what bfree was smoking and bfree told me to read a history book. I then asked, "So you are arguing that the "vast majority" of "Mexican Americans" in this nation have had ancestry in this nation since before the launch of the Mayflower? Is that what you are asserting?"

Old_sage_says said, "Slight correction. The Mayflower landed in 1620. Jamestown, the 1st permanent English settlement, was in 1607. I invite you to come to "the birthplace of America", the Old Dominion, the great state of Virginia and celebrate with us, our 400th birthday in 2007."

To which bfree replied, "Are you THAT dimwitted enough not to realize that Texas, California and the whole southwest were not part of Mexico at the time?"

Now I ask bfree what was the Mexican population of all SW border states under Mexico compared to an equal number of states from the original 13 colonies in the year 1800? If your assertion were true then it stands to reason that their populations should have been comparable. I'll trust your sources and look forward to your answer.

Are you THAT dimwitted enough not to realize that Texas, California and the whole southwest were not part of Mexico at the time?

They were under the control of the Spanish. Mexico as a nation did not exist until 1810. NOT in the seventeenth century, but the nineteenth. Also, aside from the indigenous tribes of the area, there were few Mexican nationals, even during the Mexican-American war.

Now cease your name calling and settle down.

APf