[Reaganwuzthebest]

Can't remember where I heard it, but the question was posed what if all Americans were to move to Mexico, and all Mexicans were to relocate here, what would be the end result of the two countries? It was figured in about twenty years Mexicans would be flocking south instead of north in search of a better life.

Whatever it is they're doing wrong is going to be up to them to change. The link you posted was an excellent example of what's probably one of many.

[Regulator]

That would be true assuming the Americans who moved there retained the notions and ideals arrived at over 1000 years of Anglo-Saxon history and 2000 years of Judaeo-Christian history.

If we sent the Democrats, even the Mexicans wouldn't want to live there after a while!

[Regulator]

*Ahem* But seriously, there is a very telling paragraph in that link:

There is an urgent need to modernize ejidos because of a rapidly growing population, with an increasing shortage of land. One means of supporting a larger population on ejido lands is through the use of agricultural intensification techniques (DeWalt 40, 1979). Unfortunately, many of the techniques have had difficulty spreading to the vast majority of the Mexican farmers

Translation: Mexico's population growth - 35 million in 1960 to 100 million now - has completely outstripped it's capacity to support such a population at even a subsistence level.

This is the functional definition of a Third World country. Their social, political and cultural institutions are simply not up to the task of providing a reasonable lifestyle to its people, who are reproducing at a rate completely out of proportion to their ability to provide for themselves (think "Bangladesh").

One of the main cultural institutions is their "resistance" to new methods, which the report author chronicles. In other words, a stubborn backwardsness.

So who pays for these attitudes and institutions? That's right. Us. Because being as close as we are, they vote with their feet to escape.

And what will this place look like when they gain an electoral critical mass such that they can significantly change things? You know.

All of which is a high falutin' way of saying You Wuz Right.