Would what is today the Southwest US ever have been developed if it had remained part of Mexico?
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Forgive me but I don't deal in "what ifs" The Mexican Army got beaten all the way back to Mexico City.Its not their land any more nor will it ever be theirs again.I live in Scottsdale AZ the flower of the southwest.Its a beautiful city .I refuse to even consider something as ludicrous as wondering what it would have looked like if Mexico had been able to hold on to it...
.I know what it is now and I also know how its going to stay.
The southwest is in and belongs to
The United States of America...
Neither do I
Don't kid yourself. It still sucks big time. Ask around.
No and this is a great point.
Definetly better than the slummy, mud huts found in Mexico. The Southwest would be a dump and we all know it.
Who knows? Maybe, maybe not.
No way!
it would look like mexico city , with brown air and people living in boxes drinking untreated water
Look on our side of the Border and then look 50 mile south of the other side-the border towns leach off the US side!
Short Mexican Highland Indians Vs. Apache and Comanche? LOL!!!!
you know, before it was part of mexico or the US, native americans lived there, and the developed amazingly modern cities and very inovative equipment for their time. whose to say this growth and inovation would have ever stopped? i don't think it has to do with mexico or the US at all. besides, there are many parts of the US that are not "developed" and they are beautiful that way...and we all love them. i'm not sure smog and traffic are marks of true success.
It would also be a **** hole, except they would be crossing different boarders.
I don't think it would be as bad as everyone is saying. After the mexican american war, we took half of their country. Its no wonder mexico is a poor country, imagine if the u.s. lost half its land, what would it be like. Also technology would still have advanced even if mexico still had it orignal land.
Neither do I.
I'm pretty certain Disneyland wouldn't be there, either...
The Spaniards and Mexicans had claim to most of this area from the 1500s-1800s and did nothing with it. It took Anglo Saxons to make it worth something. If we would not have ever come it would still be scrub, desert and a few small towns.
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