If we could have gotten Yucatan and shit, man.

Another Alternate History I learned that if the USA would have taken all of Northenr Mexico then Mexico would likely be rich today. They couldn't keep control of the North from Central Mexico and the country kept collapsing in the 1800s because of it

And Polk didn't want to have Puerto Rico (smart move)

The theory is that central Mexico would have industrialized about the time the USA did

Without all the Civil Wars in the North

We should've taken Northern Mexico

We probably would've sent the mestizos already living there down further

It was a huge burden to Mexico for way too long of a time

Places in the North would've been like the US

Manifest destiny is so damn interesting, man.

Or just assimilated them. It was very lightly populated

Eh, was it?

I know we sent them down when we took Cali

Northern Mexico back in the 1800s

It would be like having 3 new Arizonas

I doubt there's a lot of accurate info out there about the density of Northern Mexico at the time, is there?

>ywn have that much more beautiful desert land for Americans to populate

The beaches on the cape of mexico look great also

almost nobody lived in the Northern part of Mexico (modern-day Southwest US)

Baja california is such a nice place geographically

Mexico had to invite White Protestant Americans to Texas in order to increase population

Then they took over

huge mistake on their part

Haha

Good ol Sammy Houston

We were so badass in the 1800s man

To think about what we've accomplished

We beat Mexico and drove them down to Mexico city, we beat the Spanish Empire, colonized the west in spite of natives everywhere

People came up with Mormonism, Amish society, all within our borders

I'll never give up on this place as long as I live

the US saw the height of its territorial expansion in 1898 (Manifest Density declared complete). When we had the Philippines and Cuba under US control

Not to mention United Fruit basically made central america a US proxy

We went from most of the eastern seaboard to this in the span of just over a century

We survived an assault from the largest empire in history, reduced the Spanish empire to pieces, and had hegemony over most of the Western hemisphere

If we kept going with this attitude, we could have taken Canada.

Florida Republican Primary

makes perfect sense, Rubio's a cuban too, and also the FL senator

So was Cruz

I think it has a lot more to do with Rubios use of the Cuban community to become Senator