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This would have been (in the given scenario) under Obama. Anything he did, the MSM would cheerlead as being brilliant and worthy of his Nobel Peace Prize. Because Obama. Of course, the instant somebody not a Dem took over, if they continue the policy they are warmongering colonialists...

Look at Chiapas for an example of how 'effective' Mexican counter-insurgency would be (hint, not very)

Mexico actually tried that at the end of the Mexican War, and to this day there are political parties in the Yucatan who seek to be annexed to the US. John Quincy Adams' last filibuster was over the issue in fact, as there was a fear that any Mexican states admitted to the Union would bolster...

Maryland in this period generally followed Virginia (and Maryland only permitted slavery after being effectively invaded by Virginians and taken over). The Carolina's might well permit it for the reasons you state, but with far less political oomph behind the 'peculiar institution' I don't see...

Here's an interesting one to ponder... It's the 1650's, the historical court case in Virginia comes up that, in our timeline, resulted in the legalization of chattel slavery in the Virginia colony (a case, ironically, brought by a black landowner demanding the right to hold a black worker as a...