AHC: Successful Filibuster State

Have Americans take over the government of a Latin American state and have over half the population have English as a first language by 2000 (or if that's too difficult, at least 50% with ESL). The ruling political class must be of American extraction.
 
Yes it doesn't fall under the description of filibuster.
It was founded by a clique of mostly-illegal immigrants from the United States. There might also be reasons to believe they had planned things from the start considering many Texians' disdain for the Spanish langage and the "Latin Race" of Mexican mestizos.

A successful Filibuster state sounds like a terrifying thing to me, though. It will most likely result in horrible things happening to the indigenous and mixed race populations already in there.
 
Is there a compelling reason that Texas doesn't count?

Or the Florida parishes of Louisiana for that matter? First successful New World revolt against the Spanish.

I honestly think Walker in Nicaragua had a better chance. He largely failed because he pissed off Vanderbilt, who then bankrolled his adversaries. If he had made nice with Vanderbilt and got his support, he would be tough to dislodge.
 

TFSmith121

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This is challenging, for the same reasons that none of

Just to be clear, it doesn't have to be a state in the USA/CSA, and I'd actually prefer if it wasn't.

This is challenging, for the same reasons that none of the European efforts to recolonialize one or more Western Hemisphere republics (the US, Haiti, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, etc.) all failed; the Americans (north and south) were a) locals; b) peer competitors in terms of tactics and organization, and c) not especially interested in going back under some other power's control.

The same realities hold true for any filibusters, which in this sense, presumably means either a North American (i.e. US) or European adventurer, or some combination.

Considering how small the various filibuster expeditions generally were, and the reality of how similar efforts by nation states usually ended up, it's pretty close to vanishingly small odds for anything similar to occur and be sustained for any significant amount of time.

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