[SAMWolf]

Bump.

Makes you wonder what California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas would look like today if the US hadn't acquired the territory.

Curious that the Israeli's managed to take the same desert the Arabs lived in for centuries and turned it into a modern country while the Arabs stay in the 17th Century.

[FITZ]

Makes you wonder what California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas would look like today if the US hadn't acquired the territory.

They'd look just like Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua and Tamaulipas. Nothing changes north of the border except the way of government and culture. All the same natural resources exist on both sides but Mexico has an extremely high level of corruption and hideous form of government.

[RLK]

Makes you wonder what California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas would look like today if the US hadn't acquired the territory.

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The areas were inherited by Mexico as the result of decrees made by Hernando Cortez who claimed nearly one third of what is now the United States for Spain without ever seeing any of it. There was no way to get there to see it as the desert acted as a barrier. The northern half of Mexico remains an uninhabited desert barrier today. What was eventually to become the United States was uninhabited except by a few crude villages with 15 people 60 chickens and two goats. --resembling a scene from a Clint Eastwood movie.

[norton]

They stole the paved road?