How are linguistic and ethnic relations in California? I assume the Anglos mostly live in the north and Deseret.
Yes, roughly speaking Shasta, Nevada, and Deseret are majority Anglo, San Francisco and Tulare are mixed, and Los Padres, Colorado, and Baja are majority Hispano (though all have minorities from the "other" side).
For the first few decades after independence, power was rotated between the northern Anglo businessmen and southern Californio landowners, then after the turn of the century the Anglos increasingly consolidated power (aided by the Deseret Mormons gradually giving up some of their former autonomy and cooperating more with the Anglo mainstream) and imposed de facto segregation for the next few decades until it was ended by the Chicano Movement in the 60s and 70s. Since then California has been avowedly bilingual and multicultural (including smaller groups like indigenous peoples, the growing numbers of Asian immigrants, and the Russian settlers of the Shasta coast) a la OTL Canada, with all the continuing tensions that implies, both inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic (between Californios and Chicanos among Hispanos, and between Mormons and gentiles among Anglos).
God, is there a timeline without a Mormon state? In addition, it looks like California will be largely an English-speaking state.
What can I say, the Mormons are just too juicy to give up (and yes I know that Mormons shouldn't realistically exist in this timeline but I've never respected butterflies before and I'm not about to start).
Currently it's about even, with a lot riding on which group the Asian population swings towards.
I really hope people there would still tell me to fuhgeddaboudit
Hey it's still Canada, they'd tell you to fuhgedda
bootit, eh