Mexican Cession as an American Quebec?

I could've sworn that one of the appeals of the Mexican Far North was the fact that nobody knew your racial background and thus you could go there and see what you make of yourself there. And at times, outright forgery was involved in your ability to claim yourself as white.

It's definitely erroneous to believe that Mexico was a land of racial freedom and colourblindness. And there's certainly no way a sudden influx of black slaves from the US will be treated positively more than some individual arrivals. And with freed blacks, what might make them move to Mexico (a certain part of it at that), when they already had rights (which granted were gradually eroded from the 1830s onwards) in the US? There's always Caribbean freedmen, but Mexico will be competing with Liberia and Sierra Leone for both them and the US freedmen.
 
I could've sworn that one of the appeals of the Mexican Far North was the fact that nobody knew your racial background and thus you could go there and see what you make of yourself there. And at times, outright forgery was involved in your ability to claim yourself as white.

It's definitely erroneous to believe that Mexico was a land of racial freedom and colourblindness. And there's certainly no way a sudden influx of black slaves from the US will be treated positively more than some individual arrivals. And with freed blacks, what might make them move to Mexico (a certain part of it at that), when they already had rights (which granted were gradually eroded from the 1830s onwards) in the US? There's always Caribbean freedmen, but Mexico will be competing with Liberia and Sierra Leone for both them and the US freedmen.
Sierra Leone and Liberia were largely anglophone ex-slaves and Africans en route to the Americas not Free people of Color. Mexico was not racially free nor colorblind, however the plasticity of race, race relations, socio-economic standing and social mobility was not like the US.

Again not once did I mention enslaved people so why are you bringing up slaves when I mention free black people and people of color?
 
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