James Polk’s massive hate boner for Mexico after Mexico lost the Mexican-American war (which was incensed over territorial disputes over Texas before the Civil War funnily enough) and also the USA’s version of Lebensraum, Manifest Destiny.
California didnt really have a large enough Mexican population compared to the Southern parts of Mexico to defend from the USA, the population boom didnt come until much later
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James Polk’s massive hate boner for Mexico after Mexico lost the Mexican-American war (which was incensed over territorial disputes over Texas before the Civil War funnily enough) and also the USA’s version of Lebensraum, Manifest Destiny.
California didnt really have a large enough Mexican population compared to the Southern parts of Mexico to defend from the USA, the population boom didnt come until much later