AHC: More immigration to the Southern U.S. in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

CaliGuy

Banned
Here's a fun AHC: Get much more immigrants to move to the Southern U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Indeed, let's see if the South's immigrant percentage as a part of the total population during this time can reach the levels seen in the North and West during this time.
 
For this to happen, the South would need to be an attractive destination for immigrants, for instance with wages for labourers on par with anything like that to be found elsewhere in the US. Since the Southern economy, arguably then as now, was committed to a low-wage paradigm for a whole mass of reasons including racism, this arguably makes this a non-starter.
 

CaliGuy

Banned
For this to happen, the South would need to be an attractive destination for immigrants, for instance with wages for labourers on par with anything like that to be found elsewhere in the US. Since the Southern economy, arguably then as now, was committed to a low-wage paradigm for a whole mass of reasons including racism, this arguably makes this a non-starter.
What about no cotton gin invention until much later and thus with an earlier abolition of slavery in the U.S. as well as an earlier beginning to things such as industrialization and the advancement of Black rights in the South, though?
 

CaliGuy

Banned
Slavery largely loses its profitability in the Southern U.S. in the early or mid 19th century without the cotton gin, correct?
 
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