what would the USA be like if it had split Mexico up into states?

We would be more concerned about central American immigration problems instead of Mexican ones.

America would have had a lot more oil. This might have affected its mid east foreign policy.  Also, complete american dominance of Mexico, and thus the Carribean, would have made life even more uncomfortable for a communist regime in Cuba. American cusine would be far better. Mexican Spanish would be a cute cultural relic like the acadian of Louisiana. 'Race' relations would have been drastically different (either 'racial' mixing in the USA would have been more generally accepted, or the Mexican States would have adopted a bit of the northern USA's slave-trade-inherited racial phobia).

A friend of mine once postulated an even wackier parallel reality: what if Australia was colonized by seafaring Muslim traders? =)

It would have been very hard for the US to govern Mexico. The part that was annexed was barely inhabited, but central Mexico was densely populated, and I don't think the people there would have rejoiced at being ruled by the US.

Originally posted by strategos The question is what if the USA had conquered Canada in the Revolution or the 1812 war?

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" what would the USA be like if it had split Mexico up into states?"

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The northern states as California, Tejas and Nuevo Mexico had small populations, mostly native tribes. Plus, we did the mistake to encourage US immigration rather than Irish, French and italian immigration.

To rule the entire country from Washington would be very hard to achieve. During the last stages of the war and the militar occupation , the mexican population started to poisson, ambush and murder US soldiers when they had the chance. Some "Notables" in Mexico had the idea to offer to the US the full annhexation of the country. It was not a desirable situation for everybody. The Mexican US War planted the roots of the US Civil war due the inclusion of new states depending on slaves. The Mexican population was tired of the internal struggles, but would not allow to be absorbed by a anglo-protestant country as the US.

Also, I certainly doubt that the european powers such as Spain, France and England could allow to the US to annhex completelly to Mexico due their economical interests.

And in order to stop some comments about the mexican immigration, I would like to point out that the first ILEGAL IMMIGRANTS came northern Rio Grande to Mexico.
People that came to my country without speaking our language and demanding rights. Something that as Historian Scholars we should remember is that History is Dialectic. The flow of events repeats itself.

MExico can be divided into three areas: the northern deserts, the central heartland and the southern jungles. I could see the US avoid the civil war due to having more land to put in slave states. With dixie being less and less willing to challenge the prevailing world ideas plus the US slwoly outnumbeing the slave states slavery ends in 1888.

Originally posted by Giannis Yugoslaviation, USA would be torn upart after the Great Depression. Too many cultures, too many interests. Happened before with the independed states of California 1846-1848, West Florida, Texas and Hawaii 1810-1893.

Edited by machine - 20-Jun-2006 at 07:12

Oops your not allowed to discuss the Mexicans or immigration. I will say no more on the subject.