Anglo-Americans in Mexico

What would it take to create communities of Americans of Anglo-Saxon descent to settle in and live in Mexico in the 18th and 19th centuries to the point that they are a notable historical group?
 
Texas bid for independence fails?

US never moves to annex the American southwest?

Much worse persecution of the Saints in Deseret so they end up fleeing in large numbers to Mexico (i.e., wanking the OTL Mormon "colonies" in Mexico)?
 

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No Catholic Emancipation in Britain and lots of British Catholics decide to go to Mexico as the US was also quite anti-Papist at the time?
 
Wouldn't Texas be that by definition? They were Anglo-Americans in the 19th century who settled Mexico, and are noted historically as responsible for Texas' secession, right? :confused:
 
Everything goes right for Mexico (near ASB given its proximity to the USA and its distance from God) and everything goes wrong for the US. By the 1990 Americans are illegally crossing the border to find well paying jobs in Mexico.
 
well, just read in the GHOST CIOLONIES book the other day that there WERE a few ex-Confederates (at leat 5,000-10,000 IRRC) who were allowed to settle in Mexico 1866-67 as a buffer against Republican forces- of course, these Confederate settlers were eventually compelled to pack up & leave once archduke Maximilian was left in the lurch by the French- but could there have been some POD to have enabled them to stay on ?
 
Rather easy to do, at least at first-the Texas rebellion fails. Now, the interesting thing is the fate of the Anglo-Texan population. Do they stay in Texas? Does Mexico let them?
 
HeliosRa's right; we're called Texans OTL.... The Austin family, starting with Moses Austin, decided to make a business of negotiating American settlement in Spain's Tejas province. All settlers swore loyalty to Mexico and formally converted to Catholicism. The Austins appear to have kept that loyalty until Moses' son Steve was foolishly jailed by Santa Ana, setting off the Texan Revolution.
 
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