Iamsemisweet
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I am sure you fall well within the "snowbird" category, Zonie.
Sure, land in the West was acquired all kinds of different way, some was purchased, some was flat out stolen. That doesn't mean that it should get ceded to the states, however.
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The Feds actually paid for a lot of this land. Louisiana Purchase, remember? So yes, sell it to the states at current market value. Why do they believe they should get it for free?
As nearly as I can tell, Arizona is wall to wall snowbirds and dumb fucks.
Hey, I resemble that remark! 
Actually, though, Arizona (north of the Gila) was acquired in the Mexican Cession in 1848, and then the Feds acquired the portion south of the Gila in the Gadsden Purchase in 1853.
Land acquisition in this country hasn't always been on the up and up, though. The Native American tribes were supposed to get much more land than they eventually ended up with. But as they say, the land doesn't belong to us, we belong to the land. Geronimo liked to stick it to the Feds when he could, so I'd like to think that his spirit is watching and having a good laugh over this.
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