Torten
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- Location
- Wessex, UK
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- He/Him
It's unlikely that the US government would allow 32 more states to enter the union, as it would give the former Mexican states a disproportionate amount of influence in the senate (like the great plains) and a near veto on everything when you take the Filibuster into account.If you take this as a thought exercise: Mexico's already federal, you just add the 32 existing states to the US (you probably need to rethink how the flag works because who wants to draw 82 stars?). The Senate's easy enough, that's two senators for each like usual. But how do you figure out how many representatives? You'll need to change the Permanent Appointment Act to up the number of allowed congressmen rather than tell existing states "guess who's losing some seats"; Mexico's roughly a third of the US population in 1990, so maybe you chuck in 145 House seats, and then have the "fun" of figuring which state gets which seats.
(Though the states with barely any seats are now going to be going "wait, we're being outvoted byforeignersnew states when we've been here longer, can we have some more reps?")
More likely, about 15 states enter the union. Yucatan might join with Campache and Quintata Roo, Baja California might make one state, Sinaloa and Durango, perhaps under the name Sinaloa-Durango.
On a different note, it is perhaps more plausible for one or two states of Mexico to join after a civil war for whatever, say Baja is occupied by US forces after the governor invites them in, and joins after twenty years as a US Protectorate.