Survey Shows Most Mexicans Would Welcome a Merger With the US Manuel Rueda - ABC-Univision
go to original June 26, 2013

If the U.S. and Mexico formed a single country, what would you call it? It sounds like a silly question. But based on a very serious recent survey of Mexicans' attitudes to the world, it might be worth answering.

The CIDE, a Mexico City university that focuses on social sciences, asked people in that nation whether they would favor merging with the US to form a single country, if the move would improve their quality of life. Sixty percent of respondents said they agreed with the proposition, while only 26 percent "strongly disagreed."

CIDE said this question helps gauge nationalistic attitudes among Mexico's population. Researchers also asked people if they would join Central American countries to improve their quality of life, with 56 percent saying that it was cool to merge southward, as well.

"The inclination to cede [national] sovereignty in favor of convenience seems to be indifferent to the characteristics of the counterpart," CIDE concludes in its detailed report, called Mexico and the World.

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