Largest Possible Mexican Cession

I wonder how the United States would handle the insurgency of the Maya separatists in the Yucatan who managed to last until the 1930s fighting against the Mexican government. Would the US actually bother to send troops to die fighting Indians in the hot, disease-ridden jungle?

I imagine in a "more Mexico" scenario that independence for the Yucatan would be one of the terms Mexico would have to accept. The US would want to set it up as a puppet or ally or what have you, but whether that would take is another story.
 
I wonder how the United States would handle the insurgency of the Maya separatists in the Yucatan who managed to last until the 1930s fighting against the Mexican government. Would the US actually bother to send troops to die fighting Indians in the hot, disease-ridden jungle?

And if the US annexes all of Mexico, will English end up dominating as Spanish did, given how Spanish wasn't a majority language in the 19th century?
 
And if the US annexes all of Mexico, will English end up dominating as Spanish did, given how Spanish wasn't a majority language in the 19th century?

I don't see many Mexicans liking the thought of switching over to the language of the people that is occupying their land instead of speaking a noble, pure language like Cristiano. ;) It'll make a nice rallying cry for whichever lucky Mexican ends up leading an independence movement against the USA. It'll likely be a Criollo, probably one that loses his property and wealth to the incoming wave of Anglos. If anything, Mexico might have much more Spanish speakers! Except for maybe the Yucatan but that's just my bias showing.
 
They would have grabbed up to all of the current northern provinces in Mexico, except for Tamaulipas and Nuevo León. These last two were too populated to actually take on.

Anyway, the Americans will "have fun" dealing with a lot of hostile indigenous population in Sonora and Chihuahua now.

I imagine in a "more Mexico" scenario that independence for the Yucatan would be one of the terms Mexico would have to accept. The US would want to set it up as a puppet or ally or what have you, but whether that would take is another story.
Such a state would be a permanent headache to keep by the U.S., given the state of affairs with the Mayans. Any American contingent sent there to support the Criollo government will be mercilessly mowed down. It would be like a 19th Century Vietnam.

They would eventually let them off to their own devices.
 
They would have grabbed up to all of the current northern provinces in Mexico, except for Tamaulipas and Nuevo León. These last two were too populated to actually take on.

Nah

Anyway, the Americans will "have fun" dealing with a lot of hostile indigenous population in Sonora and Chihuahua now.

Also nah. Neither area was populous enough to pose "trouble" or have "hostilities". No more so than what was taken, at any rate (and that was next to nothing).

Such a state would be a permanent headache to keep by the U.S., given the state of affairs with the Mayans. Any American contingent sent there to support the Criollo government will be mercilessly mowed down. It would be like a 19th Century Vietnam.

I didn't say anything about keeping it. The opposite, in fact.
 
Another question, which includes a bump. My apologies.

I've heard that most proposals for the Mexican Cession ignored natural borders like rivers and instead was more of a straight-line deal (except for the Rio Grande, which had significance for Texas). Why was this?
 
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