My next novel, "Domestic Enemies," is set five years after Enemies Foreign And Domestic, or roughly about 2010. The main setting will be "Nuevo Mexico," the new name after the "Solo Espanol" laws are passed.
A radical faction of Democrats called the Partido del Ejercito de los Pobres ("Los Pepes") takes over the state government in wildly rigged elections. (Ya gotta love those touch screen voting machines!)
After "Solo Espanol" their first new laws are for "land reform," confiscatory taxes on any properties over 1,000 acres. The wildly popular and controversial Gobenador Camacho is assassinated by a displaced 5th generation Anglo rancher, and the state erupts in Kosovo-style ethnic civil war.
The federal government is too busy fighting the wars in the middle east and keeping the peace in riot-torn L.A. and Chicago to do much about a low level civil war in Nuevo Mexico.
Anyway, that's the background of "Domestic Enemies."
After "Solo Espanol" their first new laws are for "land reform," confiscatory taxes on any properties over 1,000 acres. Some might say that revenge is sweet. The Americans used the same tactics in the late 1800's following acquistion of the NM territory from Mexico. Quite a few Hispanic landowners lost their homes to confiscatory taxes levied by the Americans. Some ended up in private hands, some in federal government hands, I believe (forest service, etc.). It was wrong then and would be wrong now, but that wouldn't stop radical Hispanic politicos from trying it in the 21st century.