# Seriously, annex Mexico? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 15, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-annex-mexico/411802 "2007-07-15T00:28:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-annex-mexico/411802/6 "2007-07-15T00:48:43Z")
[QUOTE=Mosier] There’s at least 4 or 5 states worth of land and population there, which means that they’d have considerable influence in the government. [/QUOTE] Mexico is already divided into 31 states (and is, like the U.S., a federal republic of long-standing, so we’re not just talking about administrative regions or departments here); even if hell did freeze over, it would be a tough sell convincing the Mexicans they should for some reason give up their current states instead of just having them all admitted on equal terms to the new Union. (Mexico’s least populous [state has a population](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_divisions_of_Mexico#The_states) about equal to that of our least populous state, [Wyoming](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming).) Even if you insisted on dividing Mexico into new states with populations all equal to the average state population in the U.S., we’re talking about another 18 states. Put it another way, [Mexico’s population](https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/mx.html#People) is over a third that [of the U.S.](https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html#People) Definitely not another Alaska or Hawaii. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-annex-mexico/411802)._