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Hey Guys,

I've made two other threads and hopefully this will be the last one. Now I need help on Mexican California (specifically Alta California).

Without any major settlement by Americans, and no Texan rebellion until the 1850's, what would happen in California? The American settlers there and other factors caused the United States to go to war with Mexico, but in my TL the Americans have no land border with Mexico in the north. The British do and within Mexican Texas there's a high amount of settlers from the British West Indies starting from the 1820's. While in Mexican California there is a gradual influx of settlers from Asia in general from the 1830's (but mainly centered around OTL British Raj) and also a small amount from Oceania.

But the settlers from these places only make up a small amount of California's population by the 1850's and so nothing major to go along with the Texan Revolution. So what would happen to California here? With no Anglo-Mexican War until the 1870's and no 'Manifest Destiny' causing the British North America in this TL to want to take all the land it can get, would California just go independent in the end due to the different nationalities? (Those being primarily Chinese, Indian, British/Canadian, American and Mexican.)
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