What if the Zimmerman Telegram is not transported by hand to Mexico as in IOTL? Would it still arrive in Mexico? If so would the Mexicans take the deal and if not would the US enter the Great War?
Maybe there would be less Mexican immigration? Relations are so good today, it's the same with Canada. People come and go, intermarry, and think nothing of it.
I would say, at the very least, Spanish would still be the predominant language in Mexico. The US did even give Mexico nominal independence until after WW2 in 1951, the same time they let the Philippines go. However, the US pretty much overturned their whole society.
There is no way the US would annex Mexico after a war
OOC: Ok, now this is getting kind of silly. There is no way the US would annex Mexico after a war, and there's even less of a chance that English would ever replace Spanish as the dominant language.
The US could mobilize and occupy all of Mexico if they want.
Heck, we did it 60 years prior.
OOC With less.
OOC What parts of Mexico would have been outright annexed?
You’re kidding, right? If anything we’d’ve taken the border states.
OOC: Thats what the timeline states. It's WW1. The US could mobilize and occupy all of Mexico if they want.
And too bad, they speak English just like in SIngapore!
The timeline doesn't say that the US annexes the country. There's a huge difference between occupying a country and annexing it. And how and why would most of Mexico end up speaking English?
Perhaps it could be construed to mean that occupation lasted until the time he noted?
A 30-year occupation? Even assuming no Great Depression, no rapid demobilization (like there was in WWI and WWII in OTL), and a long line of Presidents who all support it, how is that going to be sold to Congress and the public?
The timeline doesn't say that the US annexes the country. There's a huge difference between occupying a country and annexing it. And how and why would most of Mexico end up speaking English?
A 30-year occupation? Even assuming no Great Depression, no rapid demobilization (like there was in WWI and WWII in OTL), and a long line of Presidents who all support it, how is that going to be sold to Congress and the public?
About the only thing I can think of (And I can't see the Mexicans this suicidal and stupid but if they form an alliance with Germany to attack the US than they ARE suicidal, at least the government is.) is to keep causing problems every time the US begins to pull out.
1. It doesn't say they didn't, Mexico ATL was a territory like Philippines temporarily.
2. Speaking English is just a butterfly of the timeline. English is spoken in India among the upperclasses for example. Public schools set up by US law might have only taught English, civil service only in English, and just more cultural contact with the US means that English took over. Nowhere does it say Spanish does not exist at all, but rather English is now the common language.
US attitudes would be different following a concerted Mexican invasion, which occurred ATL. Further, US was already using gunboat diplomacy and such throughout the 20s and 30s to further their interests in Latin America.