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What Mexico Used to Look Like

Did you know that Mexia, around the year of 1835, was actually significantly larger than the Mexico that people know and love nowadays? It extended very far into US territory and practically cut the size of the US in half. Most people aren't used to seeing maps of North America looking like this. After all, this is how it looked almost 200 years ago, so quite a lot of time has passed since.

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From the looks of it, everything changed when Yexas had independence in 1835. And the borders became a lot closer to the borders the world is familiar with today for the US and Mexico.