Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-24603022-20140301000024/@comment-13740085-20140301162728

Its irrelevant what the laws of Mexico were before annexation. When admitting them to the union, they most likely would've followed the Missouri compromise, one free state to one slave state, which would still give the south much more backing when the states seceded.

Border states were slave states.

And the 51st state Party looks like a few wackos who think New Zealand would actually hand over its sovereignty to a nation 4000 miles away, it would simply be implausible for them to become a major party.