WI: Mexican Annexation

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It would eventually end too. What were there? Seven million people in Mexico at the time? With millions of immigrants coming in from Europe, their population would be overwhelmed by people who are more inclined to the Union. It'd be the same with Canada, though Mexico having more people would mean it might take a couple generation for assimilation to be complete. It would be intigrated by 1900. Depending on how 'unstable' Mexico was in that other timeline, some regions might look more favorably on DC than MC. Of course those would likely be the periphery states and territories.


Of course, thanks to slavery, if the US annexed Mexico, the North would be screaming to annex Canada so there would be room for free States to grow and maintain that balance in the Senate. Up until the Civil War, both sides were obsessed with it.

The US would still have to commit itself to decades of occupation. Also, why should Mexico be slave States? Mexico had outlawed slavery.
 
The US would still have to commit itself to decades of occupation. Also, why should Mexico be slave States? Mexico had outlawed slavery.

Because the South will scream if the territory is admitted as free states. And few Americans will care what Mexican law said while these areas were still independent of US rule.
 
The US was not prepared to take on 7 million mexicans at a time when the US itself had 21 million people, of whom over 3 million were african descent slaves:


Senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina,:
We have never dreamt of incorporating into our Union any but the Caucasian race—the free white race. To incorporate Mexico, would be the very first instance of the kind, of incorporating an Indian race; for more than half of the Mexicans are Indians, and the other is composed chiefly of mixed tribes. I protest against such a union as that! Ours, sir, is the Government of a white race.... We are anxious to force free government on all; and I see that it has been urged ... that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty over all the world, and especially over this continent. It is a great mistake
 
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