California looked really good, so US President Polk decided to take it and the land in between. Texas gave him a good excuse to invade Mexico and take everything between the Louisiana Purchase and the Pacific ocean. So he sends in an army, where many of the general officers of the Civil War served, to take what he wants.
Flash forward 162 years and Arizona is trying to harass the people that got had half of their country taken away from them.
What would have happened if we either didn't take the land or had lost the war (not much chance, but go with me)? Would the Mexicans be passing laws to keep Americans from crossing the Mississippi to get jobs picking oranges in California. And all the Mexican gold we would be trying to buy. Would silicon valley have ended up in Washington - which was still part of Canada?
Just some thoughts.
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