Texas doesn't join in 1845, when does it join America

Suppose Texas doesn't join America in 1845 and holds off for a few more years. The Mexican-American war happens as normal and America expands as normal (I imagine Texas's original borders). Both Mexico and America accept the yellow area as Texas's borders.

How does Texas develop? I figure it'll eventually join America, the matter is when.

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Civil War

Assuming a civil war does break out in the USA, that is a good time for Texas to get itself some good special treatment upon joining whichever side it joins up with. However, if it joins the losing side, it will regret it.
 
Wouldn't the Mexican-American War be postponed, though? Texas was the excuse the US used to invade, after all.
Maybe it'll be about California a few years later, but it'll be hell for the US to move through the hostile deserts of New Mexico and Arizona all the way to Cali and Northern Mexico, leading to maybe a greater focus on a landing I Veracruz.... brb writing TL now.
 

TFSmith121

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Why, though?

Suppose Texas doesn't join America in 1845 and holds off for a few more years. The Mexican-American war happens as normal and America expands as normal (I imagine Texas's original borders). Both Mexico and America accept the yellow area as Texas's borders. How does Texas develop? I figure it'll eventually join America, the matter is when.

Why, though? The Texas republic had significant debts, Mexico was still hostile, and the Comanche and their friends have yet to depart the scene.

Statehood was a godsend to Texas.

Best,
 
Mexican-American War will happen anyways for multiple reasons- secure gold in California, secure Deseret (remember the Mormons went to Utah when it was still Mexico) because that's where your eventual trans-continental railroad is going to have to go, and because the US is full of western expanding Manifest Destiny "I'm going west, I don't care if it's not US territory" settlers that the US government is always having to bail out and follow with an army and follow (or purchase; remember- Daniel Boone and family were in future Missouri when it was still Spanish Louisiana years before Jefferson bought it). American settlers first, American army second, American flag third, American Constitution fourth in order of what went West.
 

B-29_Bomber

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This is easy. Polk loses the 1844 election. Polk was the only candidate that talked seriously of western expansion.
 
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