I don't know any Caucasians worried about this mythological nation thing... America belongs to the Americans period.. it matters not what race they are...we Americans are not concerned with this at all... its just some movement saying that part of America belonged to the Aztecs.. and they would like to claim it for the illegals and Mexico...... but in reality all of America had belonged to the native Indians.... who are American citizens too....
2006-08-15 06:00:22
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answered by Ms Fortune 7
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It should be no surprise that the area in dispute was spelled out in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which ended the US ? Mexican War. In the treaty, Mexico relinquished control of the area in exchange for $15 million plus the US assumed millions of dollars of Mexico?s debt. But the believers in Aztlan want to rewrite history and void the treaty.
The Aztlan agitators claim the US stole the area have forgot that in 1848 Mexico exercised very little control over the area, that less than 1% of Mexico?s population was in the area, and no valuable minerals had been discovered.
Astute geopolitical observers have suggested that it may have been better for all concerned (US and Mexico) if at the end of the war the US had seized all of Mexico. No one can deny that the territory in question has prospered during the 154 years it has been under U.S. free market philosophy while poverty still exists south of the border.
Without the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo the US southwest might still look like Tijuana. Disbelievers need only walk across the border between San Diego and Tijuana to see the stark contrast.
2006-08-15 13:03:23
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answered by taurus 4
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Mexicans belonging to the "Nation of Aztlan" claim that the entire southwest was taken away from them. Therefore, they want to reclaim their land for Mexico. States include Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, California.....
Some Aztlan fanatics advocate illegal immigration as a way to invisibly penetrate the US and "take back" their land. So some believe that the effort is already underway to take back what they believe is rightfully theirs.
The history of the southwest is a mix of Native Americans, early Spaniards (1600s), Mexicans, and Americans all vying for their piece!
"In the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848), ending the Mexican War (1846–48), Mexico relinquished control of the area N of the Gila River (Arizona) to the United States. This area became part of the U.S. Territory of New Mexico in 1850. The United States, wishing to build a railroad through the area S of the Gila River, bought the area between the river and the S boundary of Arizona from Mexico in the Gadsden Purchase (1853)."
2006-08-15 13:01:20
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answered by Anonymous
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The Nation of Aztlán is an anti-Semitic, Hispanic nationalist and separatist organization headquartered in Whittier, California, United States. Its platform states that United States must cede the part of the U.S. which was originally in Mexico and which it calls "Aztlan territory" in order to form an independent nation. It is accused of being a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center; the SPLC and the Anti-Defamation League describe the group as antisemitic. The ADL also claims that La Voz de Aztlán preaches homophobia and holocaust denial. Others criticize the group for their overall promotion of ethnic separatism.
La Voz de Aztlán ("The Voice of Aztlán") is the webzine of the Nation of Aztlán. Its point of view clearly wants the independence of Aztlán, their name for the region added to the US by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American war, which consists of Texas, California, Utah, Nevada, and parts of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, & Wyoming.
The group's founder, editor, and current leader is Hector Carreon, a trained engineer and former member of the original Brown Berets. Other staff writers include Miroslava Flores and Ernesto Cienfuegos. La Voz de Aztlán was rumored to have ties with the similarly pro-Chicano group MEChA, although MEChA claims no affiliation with the Nation of Aztlán.
If caucasians ARE "worried" about it that probably has to do with the spread of hate. Hispanics are the fastest growing faction in the U.S. at this time and since Americans consider this a melting pot of cultures, groups that breed hate are to be watched warily.
2006-08-15 12:54:39
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answered by Hidden .38 3
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"In Chicano folklore, Aztlan is often appropriated as the name for that portion of Mexico that was taken over by the United States after the Mexican-American War of 1846, on the belief that this greater area represents the point of parting of the Aztec migrations. In broad interpretation, there is some truth to this in the sense that all of the groups that would subsequently become the various Nahuatl-speaking peoples of central Mexico passed through this region in a prehistoric epoch, as attested by the existence of linguistically related groups of people distributed throughout the US Pacific Intermountain region, the US southwest and northern Mexico, known as the Uto-Aztecan-Tanoan group, and including such peoples as the Paiute, Shoshoni, Hopi, Pima, Yaqui, Tepehuan, Rarámuri (Tarahumara), Kiowas and Mayas."
2006-08-15 12:52:13
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answered by B C 4
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According to a few illegal alien "nutcake" groups, the southwestern part of the U.S. (Arizona, New Mexico, Southern California, and Texas) should still be part of Mexico. So their announced and stated goal is to "reclaim" that portion of the US and return it to Mexican control.
Not sure they're really thinking things through enough...
If those states all reverted to Mexico, then in just a few years they would all be part of the same failed economy that the rest of Mexico "enjoys", and all the Mexicans would have to be sneaking into Oregon and Utah and Oklahoma to find work, instead of just crossing the Rio Grande.
Oh, well...gives 'em all something to dream about. Kinda like those "The South Shall Rise Again" groups that formed up and were around for about fifty years or so after the Civil War.
2006-08-15 12:55:44
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answered by Anonymous
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Going WAYYYY back to its original connotation, Aztlan refers to Atlantis as the Aztecs called it, and its rising from the deep when the waters and landmasses begin again to shift. People call this the end of the world... it's not... it's only another change this old earth is due to go through, and it has nothing to do with sinners and saints and the ozone layer. Just nature running its course.
2006-08-15 13:05:48
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answered by Jylsamynne 5
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Caucasians should be worried more about staying indoors or going back the caves they came from when the sun gets so hot that it will burn their lobster asses Black in another 20 years. I apologize but if it wasn't for Industrial pollution and Global warming caused by the White race trying to make so much money, so they can drive those big gas guzzling SUV's, and dominating everything in the world...we all would be much better off. Meanwhile like the lady said in "The Terminator II" ...
"You had better get some UV protectorant of about SPF15 million because you all are gonna fry to a crisp!!!"
2006-08-15 13:05:43
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answered by CARLA J 3
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aztlan(dot)net says it all. It's a large portion of the Western and Southwestern US that Mexicans think they're entitled to, along with everything else they think they're entitled to. The Aztecs never did occupy it, though. The Native Americans drove them back. I guess those darned Mexicans have never been happy with what they have.
The (dot) above = .
2006-08-15 17:43:18
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answered by Mr. Boof 6
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You mean the Nation of Islam who is headed by Louis Farrakhan. They spead hate against the white race, so basically they are the black version of the KKK.
2006-08-15 12:54:14
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answered by Later Me 4
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