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With a POD after 1840, what is the most number of Slave States that can reasonably be brought into the United States by 1860?

In this respect a "Slave State" is one where not only is slavery Legal, the voting population of the state will support it.

Presuming an OTL victory in the Mexican American War and someone at the other end of the scale from Trent and other pro-slavery results, I figure one state in Southern California, no more than two made up from chunks of the Republic of Texas, two(?) from Cuba(???) and maybe one or two from Yucatan?

Any other state made from Mexican lands is either going to have too many Mexicans, not enough "Americans" or both. Maybe Cuba can be taken from the Spanish, but Haiti would resist way to long for it to work and I'm not sure where else in the Caribbean would be likely.
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