DBWI USA doesn't annex Mexico

There are two PODs I can think of for this, one is obviously that the Mexicans do better in the Mexican-American War, but there is also an intriguing one in which the Whigs win the 1846 mid-term elections. The Whigs opposed annexing any Mexican territory.
 
If the US doesn’t annex Mexico, the Civil Rights Act of 1915 would likely be far delayed or even might not happen at all. Heck even with the 1915 Civil Rights Act, Hispanics and Blacks faced discrimination for another two decades.
 
There are two PODs I can think of for this, one is obviously that the Mexicans do better in the Mexican-American War, but there is also an intriguing one in which the Whigs win the 1846 mid-term elections. The Whigs opposed annexing any Mexican territory.

Santa Anna could have stopped his repeated bloody rampages across Mexico and just accepted some provincial autonomy, for one. Or have one of the five dozen hacienda-owners, missionary complex leaders, or ranchancero-turned-bandito warlords he left in his wake after dismantling any attempts locals made at self-government gain the upper hand in a balance of power long enough to establish something resembling even a miniature functioning state during "The Burning Times" of the 50's and 60's. Continuous destruction of the economic and the drain of pretty much all the pre-existing wealth out of Mexico to hire those increasingly-expensive and increasingly-shrinking armies of mercenaries dregged from the lowest scum of the exiles and radicals of the failed "Springtime of Nations" in Europe and the increasingly stablizing situation in South America, where they could attempt to create their utopia or live like ancient conquerors too far from civilization for anybody to hear their victims scream, was what really allowed for the Filibusters to come in and succeed. The demographic disaster made the re-introduction of the slave system economically sensable from a labor-cost standpoint, while the sense of insecurity is what lead to the remaining families selling so many of their children into "bondsman" status that the legalization of Hispanic slavery came as almost a fait accompli from the new Territorial governments. Given the choice of guranteed food, clothing, housing, protection, ect. behind the guns and fences of your Master's plantations and staff and the order and predictability (if cruel) of the American-dominated government vs. the absolutley Hobbsian "State of Nature" which was bound to get you killed or living a life consumed by hunger, paranoia, and likely a young painful death outside the guarded enclaves? Hell, even I might tempted to sign up away my kids for that straw-to-gold oppritunity, especially if I get a train ticket out in the bargin.

Not that I'm defending the slavers coming in, mind you. EVERYTHING about the situation was sickeningly horrible and I'd never wish it on my worst enemy. But to somebody in the pits of hell, even a rope covered in plague-laced hooks and into leading to just the next layer up is an improvement. Far better if the Whigs or even more sane and moderate Southernors had managed to get a presence in the region and established a humane government first, rather than allow the situation to fester as long as it did.
 
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