The US with Spanish influences

So what would the US look like with a more Spanish influence? Football (soccer) be more popular. Would youth slang such as "futbol" and "Maricon" (for those who are anti-gay),etc be ubiquitous? What would the US look like with Spanish influences?
 
Take a trip to Los Angeles or New York or Miami (especially), and tell me some neighborhoods ain't that way already. Or the whole Southwest, really. But outside a few neighborhoods and cities, unless the US goes bilingual I'm not sure your OP could work.
 
Well, it's actually happening right now in the US of A: from Miami to Los Angeles, you'll see an extensive Hispanic influence.
 
There has been a strong Hispanic component from the start. Pre revolution there was a lot of trade & business with the Hispanic world. Spanish coins were as good as anyones in the colonial market whatever the attitude of the crown of guvnor was. Residual Hispanic culture persisted in Florida, Texas, and New Mexico-California, despite persistant effort to stamp it out by some groups. Spanish long rivaled & then superseded German as the second language of the US before the middle of the 20th Century.
 
I lived in New Mexico for a few years. The official languages in the state are English and Spanish. When I went to vote, the materials were in both languages (still registered to vote in the state). Just go to El Paso, TX. It's like Mexico.
The US with Spanish influences is already OTL.
 
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