I am sketching out a timeline where America staying in the British empire results in a dystopia, to counter the common assertion among some that America staying in the empire would have led to a less-biased version of the long 19th century with the world peacefully divided into empires.
Some ideas:
Some ideas:
- slavery takes a generation longer to abolish than OTL (1890s)
- the importation of Asian Indians as indentured servants into BNA
- the creation of reservations to "protect" Black and Asian Indian residents (not legally citizens) of the BNA that are glorified bantustans
- the designation of "martial races" and the like from certain Native American groups
- the British use an American Pacific coast (e.g Oregon) as a base to colonize parts of Japan and China after Opium-wars equivalent
- the French and Dutch (with Cape, Ceylon etc.) and newer colonial powers also go on colonization sprees to rival the Brits, especially as BNA industrializes
- an India war of independence which involves BNA troops and helps foster a stabbed-in-the-back myth
- decolonization wars result in revanchist, racist regimes that blame the [insert here] for making them 'lose the colonies to savages'
- the rise of Asian- and black-supremacist ideologies in response to colonialists' white supremacism in postcolonial countries (e.g Imperial Japanese pan-Asianism)
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