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August 23, 2005
Annexation
Dana found that a sizeable proportion of Mexicans would like to live in the US. We wondered if they shouldn't petition congress to vote to join the US.
Dana figures it might be seen as a problem by many current Americans, who'd worry we'd have to pay like West Germany paid for East Germany. It doesn't look quite the same, however. Reunification joined a bunch of people who spoke the same language and who'd already thought of themselves as a nation from about the beginning of the 19th century until the middle of the 20th.
Emotionally, adding part of Mexico to the US would be like German reunification only for very few people.
Posted by Mark at August 23, 2005 10:10 PM