In 1848, we were that close to doing it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_of_Mexico_Movement
Missed opportunity, or dodged bullet?
Missed opportunity, or dodged bullet?
Should the U.S. have annexed Mexico?
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Missed opportunity
At the time, some Americans objected it was inconsistent with American ideals of democratic-republican government to extend it by force.
And then John Calhoun stood up and said, "Wait a minute, these people just aren't WHITE!"
An unstated objection was that there was no slavery in Mexico -- it had been abolished some years before the Texas Revolution. So admitting the Mexican states would destroy the whole Southern political calculus of making sure there were always at least as many slave states as free states in the Senate.
And then John Calhoun stood up and said, "Wait a minute, these people just aren't WHITE!"
An unstated objection was that there was no slavery in Mexico -- it had been abolished some years before the Texas Revolution. So admitting the Mexican states would destroy the whole Southern political calculus of making sure there were always at least as many slave states as free states in the Senate.
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We should have never given it back. Same goes for Cuba.
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maybe it has happened on alternate earths in the multiverse lol
No writer I know of has yet given it the AH treatment.
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the what
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Wait a few centuries. Mexico will annex some of the southwest.
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oh ok
We would have gotten some awesome territory -- but it would come with a dysfunctional society.
At least Americans would have access to decent health care without either being employed by the government or needing a passport.
How would having a lot of Mexicans in Congress make all that possible?
A lot of US citizens go to Mexico for medical procedures and there must be a reason for that.
Sounds great!
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plastic surgeries lol and maybe miracle wonder drugs
There was a time when cancer patients went to Mexico for Laetrile.
It doesn't work.
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isnt laetrile like those magic crystals
