While in my US History AP class this afternoon, I cam across an interesting event that happened exactly 202 years ago today. I read that Vice President Aaron Burr & the incident where he was acquitted of being not guilty for treason against the United States in 1807. This scenario intrigued me about the possibility of an independent nation in the OTL southwest US & northern Mexico. Apparently he had conspired with James Wilkinson, who was commander-in-chief of the US Army, to annex parts of the Louisiana territory & Spanish territory in Mexico to create an independent republic/"southwestern empire".
The question is what is the plausibility, involving the right POD, for Burr's ambition to create a "southwestern empire" to come to fruition? How would the United States and Spain react to the establishment of a new republic?
And the question for the poll is, would you like to see me make a timeline involving a POD where the plot succeeds?
Discuss your thoughts.