Consequences of a far more developed, industrialized, and united South America

Later, or something like that. Would have been an interesting thing to witness.

Kinda difficult. The Spaniards made it so that if you're going to deal with the colonial government, you have to speak Spanish. It's not really much of an incentive to keep your language if it does little good for you. Though that said, by the time that the Latin American countries won their independence, Spanish was still a minority language confined to the major cities.
 
Kinda difficult. The Spaniards made it so that if you're going to deal with the colonial government, you have to speak Spanish. It's not really much of an incentive to keep your language if it does little good for you. Though that said, by the time that the Latin American countries won their independence, Spanish was still a minority language confined to the major cities.

Yes, note how actualy alive some native languages are, when numbers are enough - there is a batload of peoples stills speaking Aymara and Quecha...
And Acadians still speak french....

Diglossia may nor means assimilation, maybe. It depends on numbers, nationalism, economy, etc..
 
Yes, albeit how actualy alive some native languages are, when numbers are enough - there is a batload of peoples stills speaking Aymara and Quecha...

Diglossia may nor means assimilation, maybe. It depends on numbers, nationalism, economy, etc..

The establishment of educational systems managed to eradicate the presence of the indigneous languages fairly quickly in most of the countries. In my country's case, there's still a lot of people of mixed and native background that still use Quechua.

You need a steady flow of immigrants too. Preferably from the same general area.
 
More competition, but also lower prices for goods, which is good for business. A successful Argentinian steel industry (for example) will mean stronger US industries in everything that uses steel.

True. So industry would get a boost. But it'll be partially offset by the lessened dominance of American corporations and their ability to exploit the locals of the continent due to their increased affluence. Although it makes a more noticeable difference if Central America is wealthier/more powerful (no banana republics). Of course, in that case, they are still many other parts of the world ripe for economic domination, if the US can get their hands on them.
 
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