The treaty negotiations which ended he Mexican-American War, had at first proposed that the US-Mexico border run from Mazatlan to Tampico; so that Juarez was quite willing to give to the Americans what they had lost at the table.
In fact the United States had not really lost anything. Upon Scott's entry into Mexico City, the U.S. initially entertained notions of taking over the whole country. It retreated from that idea (1) on account of the administrative and linguistic difficulties entailed in taking over an established government (broken down as it may have been) and (2) for fear of incorporating a large mestizo and indigneous population which it could hardly enslave and which would therefore be free (as new citizens) to walk the streets of Charleston, Philadelphia and Boston. Tempting as the fruit was, the pear was too prickly.
In the intervening decade, the Colossal Pygmy reconsidered. Could not the same result be achieved by constricting troublesmome Spaniards and Indians in a Bantustan constricted between corridors? There weren't that many people of any kind in the ore-rich northern expanses and getting the Mexicans themselves to enforce "corridor rights" ingeniously solved the only administration the U.S. was really interested in.
American historians are compulsively eager to see -- and liberal Mexicans are quick to allege -- that the conservative loathing of Juarez was racial prejudice. That is nothing but PC cant and blather. One of the Conservative's leading generals, who was later shot at Maximilian's side, was:
Gral. Thomás Mejía
On both sides of wherever the border may life, the liberal attempt to foist racist petards on history and to indoctrinate others with their own psychotic racial obsessions is one of the things I find truly enfuriating. It is cut from the same cloth as the Black Legend -- another monstruous calumny instigated by Cromwell and served up to justify the English attack on Catholicism and Empire.
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In the intervening decade, the Colossal Pygmy reconsidered. Could not the same result be achieved by constricting troublesmome Spaniards and Indians in a Bantustan constricted between corridors? There weren't that many people of any kind in the ore-rich northern expanses and getting the Mexicans themselves to enforce "corridor rights" ingeniously solved the only administration the U.S. was really interested in.
American historians are compulsively eager to see -- and liberal Mexicans are quick to allege -- that the conservative loathing of Juarez was racial prejudice. That is nothing but PC cant and blather. One of the Conservative's leading generals, who was later shot at Maximilian's side, was:
Gral. Thomás MejíaOn both sides of wherever the border may life, the liberal attempt to foist racist petards on history and to indoctrinate others with their own psychotic racial obsessions is one of the things I find truly enfuriating. It is cut from the same cloth as the Black Legend -- another monstruous calumny instigated by Cromwell and served up to justify the English attack on Catholicism and Empire.
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