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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
Or Emperor Maximilian had managed to hang on to Mexico?
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[Harry Turtledove "Great War" series Spoilers ahead]
Though it's not the main act, this actually does occur in Harry Turtledove's "Southern Victory" set. It's a series of series, with an initial volume about a second American civil war 20 years later (after the first was fought to a draw), then a three volume set 25 years after that as the two take different sides in World War I, and then more volumes after that (that I have yet to read).
The Southern States not only support the Empire of Mexico, but purchase two pacific provinces from the cash-strapped Empire to extend the Confederate States to the Pacific. This has the double effect of keeping the Mexican Empire afloat, and causing new consternation between North and South. Large chunks of the novels do take place in these two Confederate, former Mexican, states as they deal with aboriginal fugitives from the U.S., as well as the indiginous and spanish-descended Mexican populations.
Yes it's a war book, but Harry Turtledove does a good job of exploring lots of different cultures in most of his books, not just white anglo-saxon protestant cultures.