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I've been pondering the reasons why North America (United States and Canada) is so much more advanced than the rest of the Americas. What are the reasons for this? To put it into alternate history, what would have to change in Central / South American history to have the rest of the new world be as advanced as the US and Canada?
Does the fact that the English Protestants colonize the US and Canada matter? Is there some sort of work ethic among them that was lacking in the Hispanic and Catholic colonies? Did the fact that Central and South America had larger populations of more advanced societies matter? Could the rest of the Americas be compared to the Southern portion of the US in that the economies were agricultural and slave based long after the northern US began to industrialize?