The Border is Vanishing as Mexico Pushes North – Newsweek and The Daily Beast

Eighty-five percent of all Mexico’s exports go to the United States, even as half of all Central America’s trade is with the U.S. While the median age of Americans is nearly 37, the median age is 25 in Mexico and even lower in Central America 20 in Guatemala and Honduras, for example. The destiny of the United States will be north–south, rather than the east–west “sea to shining sea” of continental and patriotic myth.