With a POD of 1900 get the US to get a state in South America. The more south the better.
AHC: US state in South America
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It's generally associated now with North America, but arguably straddles the continent, and would likely be considered South America fully had it remained part of Colombia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...ries#/media/File:Transcontinental_nations.svg
The problem is that American policy regarding statehood is ensuring a sufficient number of American whites and that they are in the majority. There is a reason Puerto Rico is not a state. For such a state to occur (and invading a part of Latin America is highly unlikely. The public would be completely against such ventures.), There should be a justified invasion (at least for the American public and the European powers), followed by mass migration to said region and along with it mass expulsion of the native population. Perhaps a coastal part of a Northern South American colony which becomes American majority would become a state (like 1/10 of Venezuela for instance). Very unlikely however. Very.
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Gentleman Biaggi
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“Oh hey America we have a big empire and we seem to have some random island with a population of 3,000 below Chile, ya want it?”
-Some British guy probably
Ja
Well even if the US got the falklands it’s not gonna admit a territory with only 3,000 people in it as a US state.
Gentleman Biaggi
Banned
Yeah but America’s territory-to-state policy is pretty obviously racist
“Hey should we admit this island as a state?”
“Does it have white people”
“Ja”
“Well ok”
Well it is accurate. Look at the arguments against Arizona and New Mexico statehood in the year 1900 for example.
In 1970 (which seems to be the earliest year that reliable data is accessible), Hawaii was 57.7% Native and 38.8% white, so it's not an absolute.
True, but that was an exception that came later. It would not happen in 1928 however.