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IOTL, many countries in Latin America sought to eliminate the issues of division between the races by actively promoting miscegenation following independence. There were two different strands of this. One was the integration of groups of blacks/Indians into the Mestizo whole, which over the generations eliminated racial differences (particularly in Mexico, where everyone is around 4% black now, but no "black people" are seen to exist).

In some countries, like Cuba and Brazil, this extended to a late 19th/early 20th century policy of "racial whitening," whereby white immigrants were accepted to the country with the expressed belief they would intermarry with blacker people, and the "white blood" would win out in the longer run.

Regardless, such ideas seem diametrically opposed to the hard color line which formed in the U.S. Which is why I think it's fascinating to try and come up with some POD where the U.S. would do whatever possible (within the confines of the Constitution, of course) to push for racial intermarriage.
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