Fun fact: that 55% that used to be Mexico? There were towns and cities already there. Like Albuquerque and San Antonio. People in addition to Native Americans were there. The United States came to them. Oh, and the two most populous states, California and Texas, native English speakers are a statistical minority.

In Texas ballots are in English, Spanish and Vietnamese.

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As for Mexico, it's been 177 years since the Mexican-American War.

What did the map of that was Mexico in 1848 look like 177 years before that?

Montanus 1671 Map of Mexico & Central America

The Spanish Empire had earlier claimed many of the lands that were later purchased from France by the United States in 1803 but hadn't actually controlled them. Much of those lands were inhabited by Native American Indian Tribes, who themselves warred among themselves for territory.

Of course, the Spaniards had gotten much of the land around Mexico City, that Mexico later claimed once it won its independence from Spain, from their conquest of the Aztecs, an empire which at its peak never came close to the Rio Grande.

There were probably several hundred thousand people living in California prior to the Spanish conquest. But they were neither Mexicans nor Spaniards.

Remember that we not only took that land in fair conquest ,but we also paid them for it.The land has belonged to America for a long time now .

Before that it belonged to Spain

We're they alive when USA purchased it ?

55% of USA ..... really

Was it Mexican or Spanish?

That and a large segment of Mexicans are indigenous too.