"Our" Vice President Joe Biden has once again stoked racial hatred. Speaking before an audience of "Hispanic leaders"  at the Naval Observatory to honor National Hispanic Heritage Month, Biden took Hispandering to new lows:  he told the group of  that they a greater claim to the North American continent than anyone else. [Biden to Latinos: You were here first, Politico, By Julie Mason, September 30, 2011]

Mr Biden continues the Obama "divide and conquer" policy of Balkanizing the American electorate.

Only by furthering the "us versus them" paradigm of identity politics can the Obama fanatics hope to stoke interest in their failed administration's bid for the White House in 2012.

In so doing people like Mr Biden engage in an illegitimate, anti-intellectual and fundamentally dangerous game.

A.W. Morgan writes:

"..The “Hispanics” to whom Biden appealed, stoking their revanchist fantasies that the southwest United States once belonged to the Aztecs, are not typically Spaniards, but persons of mixed ancestry, who may have descended from the Spanish explorers and soldiers who mixed with the native Mesoamericans.

Let’s face it. The people now crossing our border with Mexico are not relatives of Sergio Garcia or Seve Ballesteros—the famous golfers are extremely white Spaniards.

The only people “here”—that is to say in the continental U.S.—before de Soto discovered the Mississippi in 1541, before Cortés landed in Mexico in 1519 and stopped centuries of satanic human sacrifice and cannibalism, before de León established the first European settlement on the continental United States at St. Augustine, Fla., in 1513,, were the pureblooded  Indians of North America. These tough tribesmen ranged across the continental United States. But that isn’t the crowd to which Biden is appealing.

Aztlán, the Aztec “homeland” that today’s Reconquista warriors claim was the southwestern United States is, of course, a myth, rather like Atlantis. And Biden’s claim that “you all were here before us” plays specifically to their revanchist goal of seizing that part of our country via illegal immigration and demographic growth.