How about a deliberate policy by the US government to move sufficient people there so that they will vote for annexation and statehood in a plebiscite? This that done to Iceland in a WW2 in an alternative history series.Same reason why Puerto Rico hasn't become a state. Its population and culture would be too distinct for Americans to consider making it a state.
How about a deliberate policy by the US government to move sufficient people there so that they will vote for annexation and statehood in a plebiscite? This that done to Iceland in a WW2 in an alternative history series.
Now Panama has a population of 3 million against 300 thousand for Iceland so moving just US service personnel and families is not going to be sufficient. However, a US government could encourage settlement via tax breaks for companies to set up business in Panama in return for employing US citizens. The citizens get subsidised/free housing, health care etc for moving there.
In the short term this would be expensive. The rationale would be that in the long term the government would get its money back from canal fees. In addition, the programme could be sold as renewing the those that settle the West.
How about a deliberate policy by the US government to move sufficient people there so that they will vote for annexation and statehood in a plebiscite? This that done to Iceland in a WW2 in an alternative history series.
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How would the USA actually acquire Panama, though?How about a deliberate policy by the US government to move sufficient people there so that they will vote for annexation and statehood in a plebiscite? This that done to Iceland in a WW2 in an alternative history series.
Now Panama has a population of 3 million against 300 thousand for Iceland so moving just US service personnel and families is not going to be sufficient. However, a US government could encourage settlement via tax breaks for companies to set up business in Panama in return for employing US citizens. The citizens get subsidised/free housing, health care etc for moving there.
In the short term this would be expensive. The rationale would be that in the long term the government would get its money back from canal fees. In addition, the programme could be sold as renewing the those that settle the West.
Panama seceded from Columbia in 1903. If the Anglo population can be increased high enough it could do a Texas and ask to join the Union.How would the USA actually acquire Panama, though?