What's with the US getting BC/Baja California/Sonora?

Brown people are incapable of creating stable nations, at least that's what I had been getting from the many TLs here.

"Non-Western Europeans (or their descendants in the US)" would seem to be even more appropriate, considering the many timelines where Eastern European (Poland, Hungary, Russia), the Middle East (Ottomans, Egyptians, Persians, Arabians), and East Asian (China, Japan, Siam, Burma, India) all fall to pieces the moment the first German or American steps foot in their country.
 
Baja California does balance out the Florida penisula. Besides, it's there.

This thread gave me a crazy thought. Mexico buys Alaska from Russia. :) What kinds of madness can happen then?
 
"Non-Western Europeans (or their descendants in the US)" would seem to be even more appropriate, considering the many timelines where Eastern European (Poland, Hungary, Russia), the Middle East (Ottomans, Egyptians, Persians, Arabians), and East Asian (China, Japan, Siam, Burma, India) all fall to pieces the moment the first German or American steps foot in their country.

With the exception of Spain, because nobody on the board likes Spain. It will always collapse and remain a second-rate power in any timeline.
 
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Brown people are incapable of creating stable nations, at least that's what I had been getting from the many TLs here.
Why do people always assume this is some kind of racist thing that people have? The fact is that IOTL the Hispanic nations were quite unstable, especially Mexico. So if people use this instability in their own TL it's not some view of "oh I don't think anyone a tad darker than white can even look after themselves, let alone a country", it's "in OTL they repeatedly showed instability and stagnation, thus it's not too implausible for the same to be true here".
"Non-Western Europeans (or their descendants in the US)" would seem to be even more appropriate, considering the many timelines where Eastern European (Poland, Hungary, Russia), the Middle East (Ottomans, Egyptians, Persians, Arabians), and East Asian (China, Japan, Siam, Burma, India) all fall to pieces the moment the first German or American steps foot in their country.
What are these "many timelines" everyone speaks of? The majority are well thought-out TLs in which people take many different possibilities into account. Except for shoddy AH book writers and noob-ish TL writers I don't see these timelines.
 
What are these "many timelines" everyone speaks of? The majority are well thought-out TLs in which people take many different possibilities into account. Except for shoddy AH book writers and noob-ish TL writers I don't see these timelines.

I think you answered your own question ;)
 
Brown people are incapable of creating stable nations, at least that's what I had been getting from the many TLs here.


Hmmmm, I think perhaps many see 'what they want to' see in TL's as I can't say I've gotten that impression before. As to Baja ... someone mentioned it already. It looks like it should belong to Cali proper if viewed on a map. Least it does to me.
 
There also seems to be a theme of giving Arizona coast access and removing that little sliver of Mexico, not bothering to look on a map and see the end of the Gulf of California is a handy shithole with no harbourage.

Well, Walker thought they were useful in OTL, as did other Americans. So it's not surprising people would think the US might grab them. especially as the 1848 border might well have been significantly shorter.
 
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