This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York island, From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters...

Okemah to San Francisco = 2700km.

The post-Colombian racial histories the North American Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf coasts could hardly be more different. In the west:

For Native Americans the handwriting was on the wall, as they say, long before the Anglos even got there.

There was no African-American population, of any status, to speak of until the 20th century. Slavery was a political/moral abstraction tied to U.S. Statehood and a non-starter everywhere.

The people that really got trampled in the 1849 gold rush were the newly independent South & Central American nationals; Hispanics & Latinos many of whom would likely self-identify as White or use a different glossary altogether.

And Asians would quickly come to outnumber many of the lesser represented European nationalities.