Largest Mexican Cession?

I think Sinaloa is stretching it to far. Baja, Sonora, and Chihuahua is a bit more doable.
I don't think the US was interested in puppeting parts of Mexico. If they wanted control over the territory, the US would have just directly annexed it.

But again, wanting and annexing are too very different things. Annexation required a treaty through congress. Getting a treaty from the Mexican congress was anything but a sure thing. Look at how difficult (and when you see how the parties responsible made it happen), lucky really, to get the OTL treaty through. I think adding anything additional goes a long way in the congress basically means the existing congress under occupation in the capital only go underground and wait out the occupation forces and war expenses to force out the Americans. Without a treaty, no annexation. A divided US congress is not going to just push through a fake piece of paper either.
 
I think Sinaloa is stretching it to far. Baja, Sonora, and Chihuahua is a bit more doable.
I don't think the US was interested in puppeting parts of Mexico. If they wanted control over the territory, the US would have just directly annexed it.
Thar, or they would would just make all of Mexico a puppet and keeping as one to make it more convenient. I doubt the Americans would have had an easy time annexing the Yucatan and Eio Grande areas, anyways. They already had their own independence movements that Mexico City would be happy with funding with a twinkle in their eye, for what limitted reaources they had. I doubt the U.S. would want the Yucatan independent just yet anyways, as it would have been more desirable later on during the age of the Banana Republic. Then again, I suppose Southernors would have seen it as a way to put Cuba in a pincer, as well as get them closer to Central America for all that... Not sure if it is the best plantation area. Actually. At least not for cotton and tobacco.
 
So is Manifest Destiny. Ten thousand miles of land for the White Protestant ... without enough White Protestants to fill it.

I guess that would depend on how you define 'fill it'. I think a lot of people would argue that the West as a whole did 'fill up' fairly quickly right?
 
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