AHC: Mexican victory in the Mexican-American War

[Roland Traveler]

Indeed, invading the American territory would be very hard, specially if Mexico is losing the war, being occupied. But the guerrilla warfare could tire the Americans enough to leave most of the Mexican territories.

A usually non mentioned problem of the "All Mexico movement" (that defeded the full anexation of the country) it's that Mexico had a large enough population to resist assimilation (unless genocided) and even it could backfire with A Mexicanization of the US.

In an 'all Mexico' scenario I think that it's very likely that guerrilla movements would arrise, more so if we consider the strong anti slavery sentiment in Mexico.

Perhaps America was really lucky with the Gauadalupe-Hidalgo treaty, avoiding a hard occupation and a very important shift in the etnical and politcal composition of theit nation.

A complete annexation of Mexico would not "Mexicanize" the US. Without genocide, it'd result in a US-US and a Mexico-US. Remember that Austria wasn't destroyed demographically by its empire, there's no reason to believe that the US, who has more people than Mexico at this time, would be assimilated. Influenced, sure, but Mexican culture isn't going to dominate the US or anything.

 

[Alex Zetsu]

A complete annexation of Mexico would not "Mexicanize" the US. Without genocide, it'd result in a US-US and a Mexico-US. Remember that Austria wasn't destroyed demographically by its empire, there's no reason to believe that the US, who has more people than Mexico at this time, would be assimilated. Influenced, sure, but Mexican culture isn't going to dominate the US or anything.

Austria WAS demographically destroyed by its Empire. Normal kingdoms don't implode when out of money, France did sure but usually national identity is intact. Austria had demographics against it so the moment the war ruined its finances, it went boom!

 

[Roland Traveler]

Austria WAS demographically destroyed by its Empire. Normal kingdoms don't implode when out of money, France did sure but usually national identity is intact. Austria had demographics against it so the moment the war ruined its finances, it went boom!

I meant their culture wasn't subsumed or radically changed to be more like its subjects (see Romanization). Besides, that's not demographic destruction (which is the removal of an ethnic group, usually by genocide or assimilation), it's an empire collapsing.