Smallest possible Mexico
- Thread starter Will Kürlich Kerl
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OTL post-1853, minus Baja, Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Durango, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Potosi, the Yucatan, Veracruz, and Chiapas.
1840:
General Canales rejects terms of peace offer and continues to fight for independence for Republic of the Rio Grande.
1848:
United States demands Baja California at Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo as well as an independent Republic of the Rio Grande.
Yucatan independence recognized by United States.
1853:
Much larger Gadsen Purchase. US buys all of Sonora State.
1928: After 18-years of war, Mexican Revolution ends in stalemate. Nation is split in two, southern half ruled by Zapata.
1933: Chiapas declares independence from Republic of Southern Mexico after death of Zapata.
1941: Chiapas independence established after 8-year war. Loss of Chiapas allows North Mexico to reabsorb South Mexico. However, several cities (Oaxca and Acapulco) refuse and become San Marino like city states.
End result is a Mexico that looks like this:
General Canales rejects terms of peace offer and continues to fight for independence for Republic of the Rio Grande.
1848:
United States demands Baja California at Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo as well as an independent Republic of the Rio Grande.
Yucatan independence recognized by United States.
1853:
Much larger Gadsen Purchase. US buys all of Sonora State.
1928: After 18-years of war, Mexican Revolution ends in stalemate. Nation is split in two, southern half ruled by Zapata.
1933: Chiapas declares independence from Republic of Southern Mexico after death of Zapata.
1941: Chiapas independence established after 8-year war. Loss of Chiapas allows North Mexico to reabsorb South Mexico. However, several cities (Oaxca and Acapulco) refuse and become San Marino like city states.
End result is a Mexico that looks like this:
If you are really trying to go small, there are still a few things you can eat within this framing.
The Rio Bravo Rep, could also take Zacatecas (it seceded as well) and then just have San Luis Potosi and Durango join it. Have the US take Chihuahua with Sonora, and Tabasco could go with Yucatan.
With some American filibustering, Veracurz is taken later on.
Surely there would come a point at which the United States would intervene to maintain some sort of coherent Mexican state, especially in the north. It wouldn't be in the interest of the US to be bordered by a bunch of chaotic tinpot republics.
Punitive Expeditions in the North might be Common but the US wouldn't prop up a United Mexico.