It isn't too hard really. Just delay the Peninsular war and keep Spain a French ally by 1812, and start by having Spain assist America during that war. Maybe selling Texas and northern Mexico too.
Damn it, man, take what you can get!That's a bit earlier than 1860.
Does the capital D mean this has to be a USA ruled by the Democrats?![]()
No it's just a side effect of the US education system.
CSA wins the Civil War, and Spain becomes a natural ally of USA.
CSA wins the Civil War, and Spain becomes a natural ally of USA.
This is the most reasonable scenario. Juarez's Mexico as a third member of the alliance would screw any Confederate attempt to expand forever.
UUUURRRGGGGHHH! There is no reason to assume the CSA would expand into Mexico. There is no reason to assume the CSA would expand at all.
I think people assume that because the southern states produced a lot of filibusterers in OTL (not least to bring more slave states into the union to back up their position) they'd keep doing it after independence. But that motivator at least has gone, and I don't think they'd be too hungry for land for settlement either. Expansionist CSAs probably are quite an unwarranted cliché.
UUUURRRGGGGHHH! There is no reason to assume the CSA would expand into Mexico. There is no reason to assume the CSA would expand at all.
Agreed, and I dont see the CSA want to have an aggressive USA at its north, however I can see the CSA expanding a little. The Harry Turtledove expansion into Mexican provinces of Sonora and Chihuahua to give the CSA access to the Pacific. And yes I believe the CSA would want this, they can probably work an arrangement with the US and maybe Napoleon III of France. The CSA will support Maxy like in the books, in return for those provinces, while the USA acquires Baja California. Other than access to the Pacific I can't see the CSA wanting to expand much further, no reason or need.
Maximillian wouldn't do that.
That doesn't explain anything.