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>>> Because there are far more people speaking english in the US than 
>>> spanish.
>
>>For how long?
>
> Since about the middle of the 17th century.

How long into the future?



>
> Mexico neglected what the Spanish built up in what is
> now the US, except for part of New Mexico.  It has
> been estimated that at the time the California
> Republic was proclaimed that there were about
> 25000 Americans in California and 5000 Mexicans.

No big surprise.  El Norte is to Mexico City what Juneau is to Washington.

Might equals Right one more time.  Armed Invasion sounds severe.


>
> After the war in which Mexico ceded much land


 - all at gunpoint.



> , there
> was the later Gadsden Purchase of a relatively small
> amount of land in the southern parts of Arizona

A very large portion of Arizona, and the only honest purchase of land the 
USA ever paid Mexico.  It was bought for railroad right of way and support.



 and
> New Mexico; at that time, there were probably far
> more English speakers in Arizona than Spanish.
>

Shirley you jest.  There's not even a clear demarcation between Arizona 
Indians and Mexican Indians.  They've been here for at least 13,000 years. 
They started learning Spanish the moment Cortez showed up.  1540 or 
thereabouts.  The English showed up on the Right Coast of this continent 88 
years later, but had little to no influence on our desert Southwest.  The 
first known Englishman here was a suspected stagecoach robber who named our 
settlement 'Phoenix'.