Again, I don't know where you get your information, it wasn't the Southern States that wanted Cuba, it was the U.S. Government. The U.S government wanted Cuba to be a bulwark to protect the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico from outside interests. The U.S. proposed to buy Cuba from Spain but Spain declined to sale, this all took place back in the 1840's and it had nothing to do with slavery. I could go into detail on this but I'm afraid it would fall on deaf ears.
Ostend Manifesto - Wikipedia
“ During the administration of President Franklin Pierce, a pro-Southern Democrat,
Southern expansionists called for acquiring Cuba as a slave state, but the outbreak of violence following the Kansas–Nebraska Act left the administration unsure of how to proceed. At the suggestion of Secretary of State William L. Marcy, American ministers in Europe—Pierre Soulé for Spain, James Buchanan for Great Britain, and John Y. Mason for France—met to discuss strategy related to an acquisition of Cuba. They met secretly at Ostend, Belgium, and drafted a dispatch at Aachen, Prussia. The document was sent to Washington in October 1854, outlining why a purchase of Cuba would be beneficial to each of the nations and declaring that the U.S. would be "justified in wresting" the island from Spanish hands if Spain refused to sell. To Marcy's chagrin, Soulé made no secret of the meetings, causing unwanted publicity in both Europe and the U.S. The administration was finally forced to publish the contents of the dispatch, which caused it irreparable damage.”
“Cuba was of special importance to Southern Democrats, who believed their economic and political interests would be best served by the admission of another slave state to the Union. The existence of slavery in Cuba, the island's plantation economy based on sugar, and its geographical location predisposed it to Southern influence;[5] its admission would greatly strengthen the position of Southern slaveholders, whose way of life was under fire from Northern abolitionists.[6] Whereas immigration to Northern industrial centers had resulted in Northern control of the population-based House of Representatives, Southern politicians sought to maintain the fragile balance of power in the Senate, where each state received equal representation. As slavery-free Western states were admitted, Southern politicians increasingly looked to Cuba as the next slave state.[7][8] If Cuba were admitted to the Union as a single state, the island would have sent two senators and up to nine representatives to Washington.[note 1]”
No, it is pretty clear that it was southerners and slavers who desperately wanted Cuba in order to expand the “peculiar institution”. It had
everything to do with slavery.
Again, your ignorance is showing.
