DBAHC: Gringo California

With a POD after Mexican independence (1821), have Alta California become a primarily Anglophone region. I know it sounds like ASB, but keep in mind that Alta California was not always the empire state of Mexico. Before the Fiebre del oro it was a sparsely populated hinterland, and would have been vulnerable to encroachment by British and American settlers. Could it have been overrun by gringos and turned into another Florida?
 
OOC: Why is it in every one of these things someone says either "I know it sounds ASB" or "No way, too ASB", as if the alternate culture has an overly orthodox approach to alternate history.
 
OOC: Why is it in every one of these things someone says either "I know it sounds ASB" or "No way, too ASB", as if the alternate culture has an overly orthodox approach to alternate history.

OOC: I think there's a perception (perhaps false, perhaps not) that some participants wield that "ASB" hammer over certain TL ideas a bit too vigorously, out of some irrational or stodgy stubbornness regarding whatever that idea is. I for one don't find labeling something ASB as inherently insulting, but I also don't believe that, because a TL is hard or unlikely to achieve, is automatically ASB. My definition of such is "literally, physically, scientifically impossible to achieve in any realistic way", like with ISOTs or time-traveling strangers.

IC: @Hollis, are you sure that there were that many "Hispanos" in California? My understanding was that it the population of it during Spanish and Mexican rule was extremely sparse, hence the ease of settlement by Americans during the 19th. century.
 
It seems pretty difficult. The Floridas are chock full of Anglophonic people because they're Kingdoms of the United Commonwealth, and neither the British Empire nor the American Republics wanted to try and fight a war to expand as far west as Alta California.

For a POD after 1821, you'd have to have some factor that unites the American Republics and prompts them to want to conquer bits of Mexico. That or get the British to want California, but they were never really interested in it; they already had a Pacific coast with Cascadia.
 
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