>You do know that California was mostly native american and visited by the Europeans long before the Spanish were kicked out by Mexico and was only a part of Mexico for 24-27 years, right? After the native Americans, the British, Russians, and Spain (New Spain) would have more of a claim than Mexico. The Mexican-Spanish war was really the children of Spanish immigrants, mixed races/ethnicities, and american indians fighting for independance from Spain. It is actually pretty similar to the Europeans taking over this entire coutnry and going to war with Britain except that those born in Mexico kicked all the Spaniards out when Spain lost the war. It should all go back to the indians! All those of Spanish heritage should go home to Spain too! All Europeans out of this country! Gee - where do I go? I'm of American Indian and European heritage.... no country I guess.

That would put you somewhere in the Atlantic, on the average. You'd stay afloat, of course, being above the average :).

I wouldn't even try to calculate the geographic average of my grandchildren...