Most recent are the attempts of always rebellious Baja California to join the real California, some as recent as the 1980's! To Punish Baja, which just a few years ago was granted Mexican statehood (2 states Baja Norte, Baja Sur) it was kept as a territory ... not a state, i.e., a colony!
Speaking of California, it had very, very few Mexicans living there. Read Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast" It gives a rare picture of California in the 1840's, a period during which there were approximately 5,000 or fewer "Hispanics" in the whole state!
No one in California sought The california Republic, and then statehood, more than those few Mexicans living there, abandoned by their government! California's first American governor was a Mexican!
I would donate my "Che Tee Shirt" if I knew if any of these jokers, who look like they raided a war surplus store in a bad neighborhood, after flunking out of vocational school would be impressed?
I was wearing a red “Che” hat in my undercover gringo mode when I snapped that photo, and almost got a beat down. I purchased the Che hat at another reconquista rally in San Diego.