Is it possible to make the American South have more "Brazilian" attitudes toward race? In particular:
-Interracial marriage is more accepted by society, with more mixed-race children of planters inheriting from their parents and moving into the upper class
-More acceptance of upper-class blacks and mixed-race people, such that southern society divides more along class lines than racial ones
-Following abolition, freed slaves are accepted into society and Jim Crow doesn't occur.
-By 2014, the majority of southerners are of mixed race, and "black" and "white" are meaningless catagories (or at least, much less meaningful than OTL).
Basically, I'm wondering how you can get the South to handle race relations the way Brazil and other Latin American countries did.
-Interracial marriage is more accepted by society, with more mixed-race children of planters inheriting from their parents and moving into the upper class
-More acceptance of upper-class blacks and mixed-race people, such that southern society divides more along class lines than racial ones
-Following abolition, freed slaves are accepted into society and Jim Crow doesn't occur.
-By 2014, the majority of southerners are of mixed race, and "black" and "white" are meaningless catagories (or at least, much less meaningful than OTL).
Basically, I'm wondering how you can get the South to handle race relations the way Brazil and other Latin American countries did.