Republic of Northern Mexico

How could the Mexican States of Chihuahua, Sonora, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, and all of Bajo California become its own country. I'm thinking maybe the Republic of the Rio Grande wins its freedom and thens annex the other states. I would love a map.
 
You could maybe have a bigger defeat for Mexico in the Mexican-American war. Instead of America annexing northern Mexico and gaining a huge Hispanic population, they create a US puppet government in the North.
 
Republic of the Rio Grande is a no go. It was basically a paper republic. Advocates for creating a republic did meet in Laredo in 1840 concerning the creation of a republic, and they did manage to form a government and arm some volunteers, but the actual state governments of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon and Coahuila never got together to actually make it a reality. There just wasn't any real support for it.

That said, one idea I have is based on a thread someone posted here a few years ago. Maybe you can have the Spanish pursue more aggressively the colonization of California (earlier discovery of San Francisco Bay, early discovery of gold, whatever...) and sometime in the 18th century a much more populous California becomes a separate Viceroyalty from New Spain. When Spanish America clamors for independence later on, you end up with a Hispanic republic encompassing more or less the territory in the OP. I don't think it'd be called the Republic of Northern Mexico in this case, but if you fancy that name more go for it.
 

katchen

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Try a post 1900 POD. A separate Republic of Northern Mexico (or collection of independent Northern Mexican states) might be the sort of buffer against instability in the rest of Mexico that Charles Evan Hughes might intervene to create if he defeats Woodrow Wilson in 1916. The Northern Mexican states are both "whiter" (as in more Caucasian) and more oriented toward the United States than the states farther south in Mexico and historically have had a higher standard of living to boot. A separate state or even a series of separate countries (maybe Sonora, Sinaloa and Baja California form a separate state or Sonora is a separate country and Baja California is a separate country--it works for Central America!:rolleyes:, all open to US investment at a time when the rest of Mexico is going socialist and closes up. It's blatant and cynical imperialism, but that's what the US is famous for in Latin America and it can be done with relatively few troops--not enough to interfere with mobilization for the war in Europe. Just enough to keep Villa and Zapata and later Obregon out of Northern Mexico and "our own sons of bitches" to paraphrase FDR's term for Trujillo, in power.
 
What could be the official name of this Northern Mexican (Norteño) nation?
What could be its national anthem and flag?
And if it's extended into the 20th century, what could be its depiction of its movie (as well as radio and television broadcasting) industry?
 
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