How plausible is it that, after losing the Civil War, the Confederates would decide to storm south and take over Mexico as with the USM in FWOAN? What would have to be done to make this plausible, if it isn't?
How plausible is it that, after losing the Civil War, the Confederates would decide to storm south and take over Mexico as with the USM in FWOAN? What would have to be done to make this plausible, if it isn't?
The one scenario I can think of that would be even halfway plausible, is if Mexico were to suddenly collapse and have a civil war a full half century prior to OTL; which could happen, but even then, the CSA wouldn't be able to take all of Mexico in one go-maybe most of the northern half if they're lucky, but holding all that down would still be difficult.
Yeah, first book was all right, but after that...Douglas McDonough actually wrote a series on that subject. It's for sale on Amazon.com.
A decade or two of civil wars would be what it would take IMO. That has certainly happened before in history so it is possible, just improbable.
The question isn't so much how they're going to take part of Mexico--if there's enough chaos there, theoretically almost anyone could seize land there--but how they are going to hold it against the victorious Yankees. (I mean, the whole premise is precisely that the Yankees are victorious. For a *successful* Confederacy to annex part of Mexico is another matter; see my post on Santiago Vidaurri's alleged offer at https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...he-csa-how-screwed-is-he.307834/#post-8788229)
Storming south and trying and carve off a part of Mexico probably isn't the most plausible thing on Earth. However if you believe wikipedia Maximilian may have been planing to invite Americans to settle in what would be the states of Chihuahua, Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, and Morelos in something called the New Virginia colony. Even if you dismiss it as a wikipedia hoax, if you can put Max in a place where he feels the only way to keep the throne is to invite former Confederates to fight for him maybe you can put Northern Mexico in a position where it tries to break away if Mexico becomes unstable some years latter after heavy settlement by southerners.