You mean that force of less than a thousand revolters? If the Federales didn't have a fuck ton of domestic issues flaring I doubt that would ultimately be an issue. Sure, it'd be costly and the Gov. is perpetually broke, but that wouldn't stop a Santa Anna figure or any man determined enough to stop that/
But they did have a nearly never ending number of issue flaring up across the country. I wrote that statement under the impression that PoD, as implied by the OP, was that the was simply that the Mexican-American War doesn't occur, Soverihn was able to understand that, so I'm not sure why you weren't. I freely acknowledged in my reply to Soverihn that an earlier PoD that has Santa Anna killed raises the possibility of Mexico holding onto the region. Another possibility would be to go further back a shorter war for Independence would do the country good as well.
Ok, again with the historical determinism, I must say, I love it! If I didn't know any better I'd say you don't know about the (failed) attempt by Gomez Farias to send up a few hundred educators and craftsmen to the distant province. It faltered from two major reasons. The more important one was Santa Anna being, well, Santa Anna and revolting against his own government... The other posing issue was that the Federales had decreed the incoming colonists had the authority to secularise the valuable missions of Alta California, properties long coveted by the Californios.
It's funny because we actually just went over Farias' reforms in my History of California class last Friday, which is why I stated that the attempts by the Mexican government had been a failure and that the Californios strongly resisted any imposition on them. All of this is moot though because my initial statement was made under the impression that we were dealing with a much later PoD.
Ahaha, so the Mexican nationals weren't whites to you? I can see this is going to be fruitful discussion.
I should have used Anglo-settlers and it's my own fault for not, but I resent the implications of your statement.
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