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I found this data about the population size of Mexico in 1850:
https://www2.census.gov/library/publ...n/1860a-02.pdf - on PDF page 49/152
Southern Mexico - 3,782,220 inhabitants:
Yucatan - 680,948
Tabasco - 63,508
Chiapas - 144,070
Veracruz - 264,725
Oaxaca - 525,101
Guerrero - 270,000
Puebla - 580,000
Tlaxcala territory - 80,171
Federal District - 200,000
Mexico - 973,697
Central Mexico - 2,956,271 inhabitants:
Michoacan* - 491,679
Colima territory - 68,243
Jalisco - 774,461
Queretaro - 184,161
Guanajuato - 713,583
San Luis Potosi - 368,120
Zacatecas - 356,024
Northern Mexico - 928,057 inhabitants:
Tamaulipas - 100,064
Nuevo Leon - 133,361
Coahuila - 75,340
Durango - 162,218
Sinaloa - 160,000
Chihuahua - 147,600
Sonora - 139,474
Baja California - 10,000
*I'm not sure if Michoacan counts as Central, or Southern?
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So it seems that in 1850 Northern Mexico was the least populous part and Southern Mexico the most populous.
Today it is the other way around. I guess most of new immigration after 1850 went mainly to Northern Mexico.
This also explains why the north is more Euro-admixed today.
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