Could SouthAmerica have a European majority population??

As the title states is it possible for South America to have European majority, just like Canada and Australia??

If possible how would it change American, and British policy to the continent. Of course thats assuming there is a USA;)

Could a South American great-power that could challenge Britain arise?
 
Well most of the continent does have a European majority, other than Bolivia, and parts of Peru I'm having trouble thinking of parts that don't have european majorities. (although there are probably far more if you count Mestizo's as native).
 
Well most of the continent does have a European majority, other than Bolivia, and parts of Peru I'm having trouble thinking of parts that don't have european majorities. (although there are probably far more if you count Mestizo's as native).

Paraguay.

Anyways, I'd say Mestizos are multiracial - they're of mixed racial ancestry - I've never understood how "Multiracial" can only mean "black and white" in the eyes of the law.

So - if you want a majority of people with entirely European ancestry, try some more deadly plagues, and bring some women with the conquistadors.
 
As the title states is it possible for South America to have European majority, just like Canada and Australia??

In South America as a whole? Yes, but it would require a different sort of colonization, with more European families and less single young men as it happened OTL. And a bigger genocide of natives. And less acceptance of mix-raced children (IOTL, mestizos were treated worse than whites, but better than Indians; if they were treated as pariah, as the kids of children of two different castes were treated in India, there would be less incentive for native American women to having kids with whites)

And even so, you'd still hava majority (or, at least, a significant minority) of Amerindias in the Andes. In the area that was once part of the Incan Empire several crops had been domesticated and a sophisticated agriculture had been developed, which allowed the existance of a huge population by the XV century. No matter who colonizes southamerica and how many Amerindians die, the area formed by eastern Ecuador, Eastern Peru, Western Bolivia, Northern Chile and Northwestern Argentina will always have a significant Amerindian population. The continent itself, however, can have an European majority

If possible how would it change American, and British policy to the continent. Of course thats assuming there is a USA;)

Not much, if at all. Uruguay is almost entirely European, and during the cold war the US supported coups there, in the same way it did in mostly Indian Guatemala.

a South American great-power that could challenge Britain arise?

It is difficult, because Britain with always have a head start. You could still write a TL were that hapens, but you'd need to chaange many things from OTL.
 
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European immigration would have had to have followed the North American model i.e Whole families coming over from the onset of colonization. As opposed to the earlier Spanish model of mostly single spaniards coming over and then taking native wives or simply taking native woman as well as africans.

Not to mention you'd have to lower the number of slaves brought into the continent as there were about 10x the slaves imported into latin american vs north america.

Finally you'd have to make miscegenation ruled against, as again what happened in the british colonies.
 
Not much, if at all. Uruguay is almost entirely European, and during the cold war the US supported coups there, in the same way it did in mostly Indian Guatemala.

Really, wouldn't the US or Britain try to expand into the continent, or the very least try to build up allies there?

It is difficult, because Britain with always have a head start. You could still write a TL were that hapens, but you'd need to chaange many things from OTL.[/QUOTE]

Yes changes would need to happen, but could Brazil or Argentina be able to rise as a Southern equivalent for the US??
 
European immigration would have had to have followed the North American model i.e Whole families coming over from the onset of colonization. As opposed to the earlier Spanish model of mostly single spaniards coming over and then taking native wives or simply taking native woman as well as africans.

Not to mention you'd have to lower the number of slaves brought into the continent as there were about 10x the slaves imported into latin american vs north america.

Finally you'd have to make miscegenation ruled against, as again what happened in the british colonies.

Lowering the number of slave imported would be difficult with sugar plantations in the Caribbean and Brazil. After the plagues hit the natives in the Americas the Spain and Portugal need to the use african slaves. That or they use indentured servant system but the isnt as cost effective.
 
Well most of the continent does have a European majority, other than Bolivia, and parts of Peru I'm having trouble thinking of parts that don't have european majorities. (although there are probably far more if you count Mestizo's as native).

The Guianas, large parts of Brazil, and parts of Colombia and Venezuela have non-European majorities - Are we forgetting that there are people of African and Asian decent in South America?

Outside the European-dominated Uruguay, most of Argentina, and southern Brazil, most of South America is mixed-race, with European ancestry being more predominant in Chile, Amerindian ancestry being more predominant in the Paraguay, the Amazon, and the Andes, and a more-or-less even mix of European, Amerindian, and African in Colombia and Venezuela.
 
Really, wouldn't the US or Britain try to expand into the continent, or the very least try to build up allies there?...Yes changes would need to happen, but could Brazil or Argentina be able to rise as a Southern equivalent for the US??

You'd need a pretty early POD to establish an Anglo presence in sufficient numbers and force to alter the nature of the Southern Cone; I'm not at all saying it's impossible (indeed, a *USA analogue in the SC is an idea I find extremely intriguing), but that you need to start at an early enough point to allow butterflies to do their work.

I'm picturing there being an alt-Canada still coming into being under the British crown (although maybe more French-y in nature, depending on if/how a possible Seven Years' War analogue plays out) and an independent alt-Argentina/Uruguay (possibly with a West Coast if the very bottom part of OTL Chile can be held). Of course, switching the two around is possible, although I'd personally prefer that not be so. Just my $0.02.
 
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