Would Mexico Have Been Better Off if the American Southwest Remained Part of Mexico?

[Jose]

OC Weekly -

DEAR MEXICAN: Just suppose that all of the southwestern United States
had remained in Mexico's hands. Would the Mexicans have done any
better with it than they have with the present confines of Mexico?
DEAR GABACHO: The gran parlor game! ...

http://www.ocweekly.com/2011-06-30/columns/ask-a-mexican-southwest-american-immigration-council/

[Hisler]

Post by Jose
OC Weekly -
DEAR MEXICAN: Just suppose that all of the southwestern United States
had remained in Mexico's hands. Would the Mexicans have done any
better with it than they have with the present confines of Mexico?
DEAR GABACHO: The gran parlor game! ...
http://www.ocweekly.com/2011-06-30/columns/ask-a-mexican-southwest-american-immigration-council/

The native Americans would have been better off if Hispanics hadn't
showed up in what is now called Mexico. Hispanics destroyed their
culture and their gene pool with the arrival of the conquistadors from
Spain.