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Aztlan oh Aztlan - How we lust after stealing your land America.....and making ourselves kings again.....



A breakaway of U.S. states is a distinct possibility,
according to prominent Chicano activist and
University of California at Riverside professor
Armando Navarro. In an interview with
WorldNetDaily, Navarro would not answer directly
whether he shared separatist aspirations, but said
that if demographic and social trends continue,
secession is inevitable.

"If in 50 years most of our people are subordinated,
powerless, exploited and impoverished, then I will say
to you that there are all kinds of possibilities for
movements to develop like the ones that we've
witnessed in the last few years all over the world,
from Yugoslavia to Chechnya," Navarro said.

"A secessionist movement is not something that you
can put away and say it is never going to happen in
the United States," he continued. "Time and history
change."

In a 1995 speech to Chicano activists, Navarro said
demographic trends are leading to "a transfer of
power" to the ethnic Mexican community in the
Southwest. He notes that most studies show that
within the next 20 to 30 years Latinos will comprise
more than 50 percent of the population of California.
This fact, and other cultural and social developments,
are opening the door for "self-determination" and
even "the idea of an Aztlan," he said in his speech.

Aztlan, the mythical birthplace of the Aztecs, is
regarded in Chicano folklore as an area that includes
California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and parts
of Colorado and Texas. Spencer believes the aim is to
create a sovereign state, "Republica del Norte," the
Republic of the North, that would combine the
American Southwest with the northern Mexican
states and eventually merge with Mexico.

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Aztlan, the mythical birthplace of the Aztecs, is regarded in Chicano folklore as an area that includes California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and parts of Colorado and Texas.

Funny...I never heard of any Aztec ruins in those areas.

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You'll get a nasty note from Karl Rove for that post.