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Imagine the British had avoided the American Revolution through various concessions including giving the colonies political representation in the Commons. Imagine this evolved into some sort of federal system whereby the white dominions were democratically represented and became pro-Empire. Imagine the British Empire continued to expand into Asia and Africa in a similar manner to what it did in OTL.

Would the much stronger resource base of pro-British populations have allowed the Empire to hang on to its subjugation colonies into the 21st century? Or would the forces of expanding education, desire for political rights and mass protest/rebellion have forced the British into granting independence ultimately, similar to what happened to all the European colonial empires in OTL?

Let us assume butterflies in terms of intellectual thought and technology advancement are fairly restrained and those things develop similar to OTL.
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