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I've been wondering about how staunch the American government in its earlier days was on the current federal structure. Suppose the US for whatever reason annexed all of Mexico - would they ever be able to create something of an autonomous region for the Spanish-speaking Catholic population? For example, keep Mexico a federal-based nation with different states etc. except with its own local Mexican government.