Bottom line— The Mexicans lost. US troops occupied their capitol in Mexico City and the Mexican government ultimately signed the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. That’s the bottom line.
it was signed in 1848 and allowed the US to take possession of the current US southwest, which the US paid the Mexican government millions of dollars for, and which also guarunteed Mexican citizens who were cauight up in the exchane their property rights in the new territories if they elected to stay. Most did.
The land was very loosley controlled by the Mexican government at the time (with the exception of Santa Fe perhaps and the lower California coast) and mostly empty.
A comparison of the relative prosperity, freedom, and rights, and peace of the two seperate areas today (those lands ceded and the rest of Mexico) tells us which region benefited most.
What the re-Conquista movement is proposing would not only be terrible for the citizens in the areas...it would quite simply lead to a bloody, ut fairly short war...with the same outcome as 1848. property ownership.
This is what’s so humorous about the Reconquista movement; they don’t even know their own history, they’ve just made up something that fits their agenda.
Until the latter half of the 19th century, almost all of central and northern Arizona remained sparsely settled.
At the time of Arizona’s acquisition by the United States in 1848, fewer than 1,000 people of Hispanic origin lived in Arizona.