Comment Re:No, they're replacing. (Score 1) 341
The AC before me put it perfectly but since you might not see his comment -- the Spanish stole the land from the Native Americans before that. So what is the rule -- the first European conquerors get permanent title to the land? And besides, by the time of the Mexican-American war a lot of the previously Mexican territory had already been lost when Texas won their war of independence and broke off from Mexico -- hey, if it was OK for Mexico to break off from Spain, then it was OK for Texas to break off from Mexico.