So, I had an interesting (if short) discussion with my Spanish teacher (who was born and raised in Mexico) today about the Mexican-American War. He basically summed it up as the biggest embarrassment in Mexican history because they lost half of their land... which of course got me thinking about the war and the events leading up to it.
There are plenty of scenarios where the US gets Texas but not Alta California and Nuevo Mexico. But what if we reversed that? What if Texas stays firmly within Mexico, and in the Mexican-American War the United States instead takes on Alta California, Baja California, and maybe Sonora and part/all of Chihuahua? How would the debate over slavery evolve in America without the plantation-worthy soil of eastern Texas? With a longer land border between Mexico and the US, and with America leaving them arguably better land than IOTL, could we see a greater Mexican-American friendship form?
Interested in what you think.
There are plenty of scenarios where the US gets Texas but not Alta California and Nuevo Mexico. But what if we reversed that? What if Texas stays firmly within Mexico, and in the Mexican-American War the United States instead takes on Alta California, Baja California, and maybe Sonora and part/all of Chihuahua? How would the debate over slavery evolve in America without the plantation-worthy soil of eastern Texas? With a longer land border between Mexico and the US, and with America leaving them arguably better land than IOTL, could we see a greater Mexican-American friendship form?
Interested in what you think.
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