AH challenge: MESTIZO-style society accepted in British north America

Were there any ways in which European settlers in British North America could've more strongly and willingly accepted a MESTIZO-style society of interracial marriage and ppl of mixed blood, similar to the situation in Spanish and Portuguese colonies in South America ? Of course, there were interracial unions between many ppl of different races, white, black and red (so that many white or black Americans whose ancestry is traceable to colonial times, can claim Cherokee or other Indian blood), but how could such relationships and the resulting progeny- esp between black men and white women- have been viewed more positively by Anglo-American society, instead of being shunned and frowned upon ?
 
There are several hurdles to overcome.

1. The genocidal wars from the earliest days of settlement against the Native American Indians. If you kill off a whole bunch of them there just isn't a whole lot left to intermarry with.

2. A major difference between Spanish and English settlement is that the English actually settled - whole families went. There are enough women per men. The Spanish went to conquer and exploit and they sent soldiers. The ratio of Spanish men to Spanish women was probably 30 to 1 (just a figure I pulled out of the air) while the ratio of Spanish men to Native women was probably 1 to 10. Its a classical situation, also very much found in the British Raj, there is more intermarriage between white men and native women before the arrival of the white women.

3. Racial concepts of the times. These change really, really slowly.

4. Darwinism, which only reinforced the racial concepts of the time.

5. Economic differences between the various races. Marrying for love is a noble idea, but it doesn't keep one dry when it rains, pay the mortgage or provides for one in old age.
 
Another factor is the much more puritanical view of sex northern European Protestantism had than Latin Catholicism. Since, by definition, any sex with Indians would have been adulterous, I suspect it was practiced less, and the issue of such unions would never be recognized by most English colonists.
 
Just out of curiousity, what % of the US white population has even trace amounts of NA ancestry? Growing up in MT as I did, there were always quite a few whites with some NA blood in them (me included), but I suppose that might be the exception rather than the rule. Still, I had always thought that intermarriage with the natives wasn't all that rare, although it wasn't on the scale of the spanish....
 
i think i'm the only white one in my town w/ indian blood in me...though that's not sayin much, there were only about 5 white kids in my high school.
 
Just out of curiousity, what % of the US white population has even trace amounts of NA ancestry? Growing up in MT as I did, there were always quite a few whites with some NA blood in them (me included), but I suppose that might be the exception rather than the rule. Still, I had always thought that intermarriage with the natives wasn't all that rare, although it wasn't on the scale of the spanish....

I would say it depends on the area of the United States. The Great Plains and Southwestern states see more of this then anywhere else in the country (I live in CO; I'm not any NA but my girlfriend has NA blood). When I visit family in the east (PA), there isn't very much of that at all if any.

Here's something I found:

In 2006, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that about 0.8% of the U.S. population was of American Indian or Alaska Native descent. This population is unevenly distributed across the country.

American FactFinder, United States Census Bureau. "US census". Factfinder.census.gov.
 
The Catholic-Protestant thing is huge, as is the style and location of colonization. Peru and Mexico, for example, had very dense populations of natives that survived the initial wave of colonization.

US Indian populations were not only less dense, but we continually fought wars to kill or move them all away from us. We brought over our families, and really didn't want any Indians around anyway. We had no need to intermarry, and continually killing Indians or sequestering them into reservations as we expanded across the country is not exactly conducive to interrmarriage.

I think the religious angle, along with the methodological issues, are really what it comes down to. Natives could be baptized and then marry soldiers. You had Aztec and Inca nobility gain Spanish titles.

US colonization was either wholly religious (the Puritans) or company based like in Virginia, and even then families started to come over after a while. We wanted a new land for our distinct and separate communities, as opposed to the "Spanish rule over natives" kind of deal. We migrated because we were separate, and made great efforts to stay that way.
 
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