I wonder if just taking several polls of the Mexican citizens on the question "Would you like to see Mexico become 30 or so states of the U.S.?" would cause Vincente to ponder the course of his country.
I took my kids down to Ixtapa over the holidays a few years ago. I heard it was Mexico's west coast version of Cancun. We stayed at one of the top hotels and I was surprised to see the majority of the guests were Mexicans.
30 states? Screw that. I'll be generous and offer them to be a protectorate if they want to join the US so badly. But there's no way in hell we're hooking up with a people for whom those truths are not self-evident.