Article: Baja California: better quality, bigger market.

If the United States had been a little less generous, Baja California might have been the 51st state--and its wines widely consumed instead of little known among Americans.

When the U.S. wrenched half of Mexico's territory away in the Mexican War of 1846, it originally considered keeping Baja California, too, but gave in to the Mexican fear of having much of its West Coast blanketed by another country. So after stealing California and the whole Southwest, we graciously left our neighboring nation the mostly barren peninsula, and even set the border far enough north to provide a land bridge to the mainland of Mexico. (Baja California means Lower California; ...

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