AHC/WI: The Philippines more integrated into the greater United States

OTL, the American "misadventure" in the Philippines was an absolute clusterfuck, with the US not really knowing what to do with the islands and the whole archipelago being seen as a drain on the US since the Filipinos themselves didn't want to replace old Spanish colonial masters with Americans and there were several revolts against American rule.

With a POD after 1899, how could the United States integrate the Philippines more into the nation than it was OTL? Could the Philippines ever be made American states? How would the United States react to states that were objectively majority non-white and non-Christian? How would Filipino culture and cultures react to sustained Americanization? I honestly have no clue.
 
The Philippines's democraphic makes it a way too high disruptor to the United States' political equilibrum.

Today, it would have claimed one fourth of the House of Rpresentatives and, if divided in several States, a large part of the Senate.
 
OTL, the American "misadventure" in the Philippines was an absolute clusterfuck, with the US not really knowing what to do with the islands and the whole archipelago being seen as a drain on the US since the Filipinos themselves didn't want to replace old Spanish colonial masters with Americans and there were several revolts against American rule.

With a POD after 1899, how could the United States integrate the Philippines more into the nation than it was OTL? Could the Philippines ever be made American states? How would the United States react to states that were objectively majority non-white and non-Christian? How would Filipino culture and cultures react to sustained Americanization? I honestly have no clue.

The Philippines was and is majority Christian, it's famously the only majority Christian nation in East Asia. They are mostly Catholics but last time I checked that's still Christian.

The racial aspect would be first and foremost the sticking point.
 
The Philippines was and is majority Christian, it's famously the only majority Christian nation in East Asia. They are mostly Catholics but last time I checked that's still Christian.

The racial aspect would be first and foremost the sticking point.

By the 1990s afterward and into the 21st century, surely racist notions would've died down a bit for ascension of three or five US states ?
 
By the 1990s afterward and into the 21st century, surely racist notions would've died down a bit for ascension of three or five US states ?

Possibly but I don't see the US retaining them long enough for those views to dissipate. And you could argue they still haven't, look at the discomfort the idea of making PR a full blown state creates among some.
 
The Philippines was and is majority Christian, it's famously the only majority Christian nation in East Asia. They are mostly Catholics but last time I checked that's still Christian.

The racial aspect would be first and foremost the sticking point.

There was still an important anti-Catholic faction among some parts of the American population.
 
Possibly but I don't see the US retaining them long enough for those views to dissipate. And you could argue they still haven't, look at the discomfort the idea of making PR a full blown state creates among some.

I thought the controversy over Puerto Rico was more of a partisan issue and the notion of adding more Democratic Party representatives into Congress ? In any case, a different 20th century could surely lead to less hyperpartisanship in US politics and havong the US Republican party be more diverse
 
On the question of demographics vis à vis the House and Senate, could a tighter integration of the Philippines into the US political system and economy serve to speed up economic development there such that the Filipino population would undergo a quicker demographic transition than OTL, resulting in a smaller population and less influence than we might think?
 
I thought the controversy over Puerto Rico was more of a partisan issue and the notion of adding more Democratic Party representatives into Congress ? In any case, a different 20th century could surely lead to less hyperpartisanship in US politics and havong the US Republican party be more diverse

Which is the issue, it's the assumption whether founded or not that a group of people who happen to be of color will automatically vote democratic. If PR was majority white it would not have been in this political limbo for 100 years.
 
Which is the issue, it's the assumption whether founded or not that a group of people who happen to be of color will automatically vote democratic. If PR was majority white it would not have been in this political limbo for 100 years.

Would a more diverse Republican Party electorate change this ? If American minorities are more evenly split between both US parties with a different 20th century, could the multiple Phillipine regions ascend to statehood ?
 

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For this to be real you need a US where segregation never exists. For that just continued to display a US where race was a crucial part of the US. Look at the treatment of the French speaking population of the Louisiana that lost its rights as soon as enough Anglo Saxons lived in the state. The subsequent treatment of Spanish speaking population after US Mexican war where congress failed to ratify their rights as pRt of treaty. Of course this follows the restrictive emigration from Asia and of course the treatment of blacks in the US after civil war. Lastly we have the treatment of Cuba and Puerto Rico along with Philippines.

I am not singling out US. the US is not alone in its treatment of those of different religion and minorities especially those from outside of Europe it could hardly be called a shinning example. It was the same as others and as such was not capable of granting citizenship to large groups that the general public considered inferior.

Therefore your premise is impossible without a POD of early in the country’s history. For the trouble for many Americans with Catholics started with the arrival of the first Irish Catholics in the late 18th century and continued all the way to the early 20th century. For upto the wW2 the US accepted Northern Europeans but not Southern Europeans.

I am talking mostly about Catholics because Philippines, Cubans snd Puerto Ricans are all Catholics and to many non-Europeans therefore they had two things going against them. Race and religion in becoming part of the US.
 
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