[KAUAIBOUND]

Tucson is on the front line of the war on illegal immigration. My 19 yr old son will vote for the first time Tuesday, and will vote for Graf. The Az Daily Red Star and the left-leaning Too-Stoned Citizen have pilloried Graf for years because of his illegal immigration stance, and have created huge negatives in the minds of their brainwashed readers. I am keeping my fingers crossed.

My son lives near the University of Az and his neighborhood has pro-illegal immigration signs everywhere, which totally pisses him off. As for the Reconquista, I am a 4th generation Arizonan, descendant of a pioneer family, so I can state with absolute certainty that my family was there before 99.99% of those of Mexican heritage, so I have never bought the line that it was "their land" before the gringo arrived. It was the gringo who civilized the Southwest, something the Mexican government could not.

[HiJinx]

It was the gringo who civilized the Southwest, something the Mexican government could not do.

"Well said" Ping!

[BIGLOOK]

The Spanish found no cities of gold in the southwest and ignored their outposts, leaving Santa Fe and other cities to wither. The Mexicans were just as disinterested in the region until the Yankee traders and the Missouri mules arrived and brought prosperity.

Same as in Texas and California, the Mexicans came chasing the new gold......the Greenback Dollar.

[Jabba the Nutt]

"It was the gringo who civilized the Southwest, something the Mexican government could not."

You have to be civilized in order to bring civilization, something the Mexican government never has been.