Mexico

COUNTERFACTUAL: IF, AT THE END OF THE MEXICAN WAR, THE US HAD DREW A NEW BORDER JUST NORTH OF JALISCO IN THE WEST (ACROSS FROM US CONTROLLED BAJA CALIFORNIA), MEXICO CITY IN THE CENTER, AND VERACRUZ IN THE EAST; THEN ETHNICALLY CLEANSED (MOVED) THOSE WHO WOULDN'T ASSIMILATE, TO A RUMP MEXICO IN THE SOUTH, THE US WOULD HAVE A LOT LESS PROBLEMS TODAY. NO GENOCIDE - JUST A LARGER EXPANSION THAN WHAT TOOK PLACE. MEXICO'S POP. WAS MUCH SMALLER IN THE 1840'S. THIS AGRICULTURAL REGION COULD HAVE BEEN A BUFFER ZONE AND ABSORBER OF LATER IMMIGRATION.