Comments by "Fredinno" (@innosam123) on "What if Latin America was Rich?" video.

  1. I'm not sure about the population of Latin America being larger. Their Birth Rates are higher in the modern day than the USA, which counteracts a lot of the early advantage. Also, Northern Mexico has horrid geography (minus California) that really make it difficult to make wealthy, especially as an independent state. It's comparable to Afghanistan in terms of geography, and the Americans can use the Mississippi's tributaries to secure all the land in its watershed- taking most of the actually decent land (minus California) and thus still being a global power.
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  2. @Whatifalthist New Mexico is pretty isolated and difficult to access in the grand scheme of things, esp. without railways- there's no way to get there by boat, leaving only wagons though desert until the invention of the railway. Most of Sonora has the problem South Africa had- no one would really want to live there, even if they could- they’d go to Argentina or America instead. Only California and Texas would be colonized until all their land was gone. It's also important to note so much of California and Texas are only arable due to wide-scale irrigation that may not be available to early settlers. If in Texas, there's no reason the Americans can't just take it over- I mean, they made it all the way to Quebec City in the American Revolution (Canada would have a smaller population, but it's arguably more defensible due to the Great Lakes and St Lawrence). The border with the Americans is also completely indefensible just from sheer size and scale.
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  3.  @WhatifAltHist  My argument is that they wouldn't be able to hold the lands (it's much easier to get to there from the American side than the Mexican side), and Sonora would be left with California and the Desert. Texas just isn't defensible in any way, and so you'd be left with a core in California and a comparatively impoverished Sonora. This map shows why: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AphyHYpEjmp-gqkS66W7rhZhj6T9Ag?e=HfBQaT Even with the scenario as you made it, the USA minus Texas and California is still a superpower in OTL. Unless they manage to conquer all of the Great Plains.
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  4. Weenie Yes, but Afghanistan has good places to mine too. Sonora needs Irrigation to produce all those crops. Also, it’s a nightmare to connect all the parcels together because every places that’s farmed in Northern Mexico is separated from the other by mountains and desert.
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  5. rogelio valdez The problem is that logistics to Northern Mexico are difficult and it’s so disconnected to Mexico’s Core.
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  6.  @k.t.5405  Brazil benefited from being a slave economy.
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  7. What if Polk achieved his territorial aims?
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  8. No, at least not historically.
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  9. What if Zealandia existed?
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  10. Ser Barr He did say the British had a bad record with Native colonies. And TBH, the Mixed Race people would likely be more like Settler Whites if they were treated as such.
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