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In 1846, the United States Congress declared war on Mexico following a border skirmish between a Mexican cavalry detachment and a U.S. patrol. Long story short, Mexico lost, and the Mexican government ended up signing the Guadalupe-Hidalgo treaty, in which Mexico transferred to the USA the territories that are nowadays covered by California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado and Oklahoma -- that is, around 60% of its territory (though only a very small part of its population or gross national income)- for the sum of 15 million dollars ( accounting for inflation, that's about $313 million today). This was later followed by the sale of La Mesilla / purchase of Gadsden for the purpose of building a transcontinental railroad.
Needless to say, the thought of being formerly such a huge country that lost so much land supposedly means that every single Mexican has at one point dreamed of getting back the "Lost Territories". And of course, Mexico being next to the U.S. [[Crapsack Only
But what if, in fiction, the USA were weakened enough to make this dream come true?
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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Red Dawn]]'' several Central/South American countries invaded the US through Mexico after a limited nuclear strike.
* In the ''[[Wild Wild West (
* Referenced in 80s Cannon-produced action film ''Avenging Force''. The lead white supremacist's rant about liberals and communists refers to 20 million Mexicans in the United States who would just "love to rebel and join the Socialist Republic of Mexico."
* In the comedy ''[[Viva Max]]'', the title General Maximillian is driven to near insanity when the Mexican woman he has a crush on spurns him and insults his capacity as a military officer. He assumes that, naturally, the best way to impress her is to recapture the Alamo.
* A news story near the beginning of ''[[
* In ''[[Escape From
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Mexico attempts to take Texas (claiming it belonged to them, even if they were centuries late) at one point in the ''[[
** A Mexican-occupied Texas level was planned, but cut from development.
* Soviet troops in ''[[Red Alert]] 2'' invade via Mexico (or at least we see a Apocalypse Tank crushing a "Welcome to Texas" sign).
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== Webcomics ==
* Inverted in ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
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* Inverted by [[wikipedia:51st state#Mexico|the suggestion]] that Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León would be on the shortlist of Mexican states to join the U.S., being closer to [[Everything Is Big in Texas|Texas]] than the rest of Mexico.
** As recently as the 1980s the annexation of Baja California was proposed as a means of alleviating Mexico's foreign debt owed to the United States.
* This was exactly why the [[Mexican
** Actually, the war happened because Mexico and Texas was arguing over where the Texan border was - Texas said Rio Grande, Mexico said Nueces River - and that argument carried over to the United States when Texas was annexed. When [[James K Polk]] sent troops to uphold the Rio Grande border and was fired on by Mexican troops, it started the war... and subsequent [[Curb Stomp Battle]] with the U.S. smashing its way through ninety percent of Mexico.
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