Quote Originally Posted by Kralizec
Yeah, but that's a pretty lousy basis for a territorial claim though. Neither is a strictly nominal claim of centuries back. The only quasi-viable claim I can see is the fact that those areas were nominally part of the Mexican republic for a couple of decades in the 19th century.

If there would have to be an Aztec homeland, aren't there still native tribes who are both culturally and genetically way closer to the Aztecs of old?
That's not the claim. The claim is the massive number of people who want the land, regardless of why.