Would there be huge, modern cities there, home to 60+ million people from California to Texas? I think not.
2007-01-19 10:29:19 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
hairbands_fan is WAY off - Mexico had hardly ANYONE living in the "lost" territory. That's because to Mexicans, it was the far north, desert, wasteland.
They would have done nothing with it.
2007-01-19 10:59:58 · update #1
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...
2007-01-19 11:58:22 · answer #1 · answered by Yakuza 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
If the southwest became nonetheless Mexico, the beautiful cities might want to by no ability were created, roads equipped or sanitation and so on. , Mexico willingly offered it because it became desert, it became developed by technique of our ancestors to the thriving land that is now. for sure they want each thing lower back and could lie and thieve something no longer locked up.
2016-10-15 11:24:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-01-19 14:39:18 · answer #3 · answered by Finn 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
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!!!!
2007-01-19 10:35:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
it would look like mexico city , with brown air and people living in boxes drinking untreated water
2007-01-19 10:35:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-01-19 10:37:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Definetly better than the slummy, mud huts found in Mexico. The Southwest would be a dump and we all know it.
2007-01-19 10:33:20 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 6⤊ 2⤋
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.
2007-01-19 10:47:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
Neither do I.
I'm pretty certain Disneyland wouldn't be there, either...
2007-01-19 11:00:21 · answer #9 · answered by DAR 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No and this is a great point.
2007-01-19 10:32:46 · answer #10 · answered by Chainsaw 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋