[My2Cents]

If it weren't for Polk, the entire Southwest would be equivalent to a third-world nation, swarming with Mexicans...Uh, wait a minute....

[rabscuttle385]

LOL

[Hawthorn]

> If it weren't for Polk, the entire Southwest would be equivalent to a third-world nation <

Maybe. But if Andrew Jackson hadn't won the Battle of New Orleans, the whole Mississippi River Basin plus the Southwest might now be a part of Canada!