Create More European Settler Colonies

[Rishi]

Today, there are 4 countries based on European settler colonies - the United States of America, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Create a timeline in which there are not only more European settler colonies, but at least one of these European settler colonies survives to the present day as a European-majority country outside of Europe itself. Personally, I think it'd be difficult for European colonial empires to get away with more than 2 or 3 more European settler colonies than what we already have here in our timeline, since the settler-colony history of the United States of America, Canada, New Zealand and Australia remains somewhat controversial to this day.

 

[Drex]

I'm pretty sure Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and southern Brazil are predominantly descended from white settlers aswell (Siberia counts?). Creating more settler colonies is complicated, mainly because of climate. Europeans are used to a temperate climate which is only accurately replicated in Chile, Australia, the American West Coast and parts of the East Coast (thou the rest is fairly similar). Most if not all of these areas are white majority nowadays. Most people do not want to leave their homes to seek adventure somewhere else, and the country's politics really do much regarding this. I guess the best choice would be for everyone to adopt English-like colonial policies of attempting to replicate the original society instead of using the colonies as resource extraction territories. Populations take time to achieve stable and growing levels, so any place that is supposed to have a white european majority must have a substantial presence of whites by the early XX century at the most and be partly devoid of other groups (they'll likely follow slowly demographic trends than European due to a slower modernisation like in SA so white majorities could be reverted). If we are talking about post-colonial states, they must have fairly open borders like the US and Argentina and certain attributes that newcomers can easily exploit, such as land or an incipient industry, as well as having a growing and developing economy and enough internal and external security to keep the inmigrant flow stable. We can always divide colonies like what IOTL became the US into separate states descended from different european states, thou' that's kind of cheating.

 

[Terço]

Western Cape colonized by portuguese in the 16 century
The climate is similar to the south of Portugal and fine for wheat , olive trees , wine , sheep
The portuguese can bring horses and camels
The native cattle provides beef
The native population its quickly absorved and we get a population of southern europeans and mulatos .

 

[Orcot]

what abouth settlers are averse to "imported" slavery all of the caraibs turn western. South africa and namibia seems doable, Like said above Arentina, Chile urugay arguably brazil and mexico are allready there

 

[Jackson Lennock]

Most countries in Latin America are majority settler-descended. It just happens to be that the populations are much more mixed race (European and Indigenous descent). Bolivia is the only exception to this. If Spain allowed emigration by groups other than Castilians (Aragonese/Catalans, Galicians, Basques, Sicilians, Sardinians, Neopolitans, Dutch, etc) you might end up with Latin America being much more European.

Fiji was a settler colony. It's just full of Indians instead of whites.

Taiwan, New Caledonia, Kenya, Angola, Namibia, Tanzania, and Hokkaido could all be settled.

 

[twovultures]

I think North America and Australia can definitely be split apart. New Zealand too for that matter, with different European powers grabbing the North and South islands. Does that count, OP?

Otherwise, I think a small French exclave in Algeria, perhaps consisting of the Algiers metro area is plausible.

 

[Wendell]

Costa Rica is also very much a "settler" country.

 

[America'sFuhrer]

Err, not before 1900, but an Italian Lybia / Tunisia, given enough time would probably be flipped to Italian-majority.
A before 1900 thought could be Kenya, if Indian immigration was encouraged into the highlands.

 

[Gloss]

Essentially have more early European migration to the Spanish colonies, by having a different ideological background to colonialism, having non-Castillians be allowed. This would make Spanish colonies closer to English colonies than OTL.

Most countries in Latin America are majority settler-descended. It just happens to be that the populations are much more mixed race (European and Indigenous descent). Bolivia is the only exception to this.

This is not true, Peru,Mexico and Guatemala are also majority native countries and many other countries are just plurality Europe, for example:

Spoiler: Data

 

[Jackson Lennock]

@Gloss Mexico is only a fifth indigenous, Peru only a quarter, and Guatemala two fifths.

 

[Gloss]

@Gloss Mexico is only a fifth indigenous, Peru only a quarter, and Guatemala two fifths.

This is not true when talking about genetics, freely available DNA studies disprove that, mestizos in those countries are mostly indigenous in ancestry and most whites have sizeable amount of native ancestry too.

 

[Emperor Gustavus Adolphus]

With more Technological advancements, Inner Australia, Northern Canada and Sahara and Arabian deserts could have been exploited. But all other greener regions in the Old World were quite filled by then. Siberia can be counted as it was a fairly empty land that was colonized by the Russians. That's pretty much it, for any settled colonies in the World.

Edit: Considering that we are not advanced to that level, even now, I would say an another major POD is needed to get that. Probably the money making colonies, like India and Africa break free early, triggering an unprecedented Scientific growth due to the zeal of the new countries wanting to grow and the former colonial powers wanting to get something else to make money. This would need to happen around early to mid 1800s.

 

[Wendell]

If one avoids the First World War, it's not inconceivable that there could be much larger white settlement in parts of subsaharan Africa and/or the southern Mediterranean coast.

 

[PGSBHurricane]

If one avoids the First World War, it's not inconceivable that there could be much larger white settlement in parts of subsaharan Africa and/or the southern Mediterranean coast.

How would that be? Wouldn't the climate in those parts of Africa be too harsh to Europeans for settlement? And in subsaharan Africa's case, the host of tropical diseases and the lack of modern medicine (correct me if I'm wrong)?

 

[Gloss]

Two ideas I come up recently would be getting rid, partially at least, of malaria and scurvy among European sailors and settlers by popularizing the already known treatments through specific fruits and quinoa.

Having this even without changing anything else would incentivize more people to move, maybe even making settlers' expeditions less state based? Kinda like ancient Greek and Phoenician colonies?

 

[SpanishSpy]

There was a very strong push to settle Kenya with Britons in the former half of the 20th century, often as a way of giving World War veterans land. If that is more successful you'd have one more.

 

[Revachah]

There was a very strong push to settle Kenya with Britons in the former half of the 20th century, often as a way of giving World War veterans land. If that is more successful you'd have one more.

I was going to post both highland Kenya and highland Papua with white and mixed race full citizens as settlers.

 

[Emperor Gustavus Adolphus]

Why don't people realize that more settler colonies will need a significant advancement in Technology from the OTL pathway?

You can't simply move into a land and settle. Food and energy supply needs to be taken into account and you can't occupy lands used by someone else "just like that".

You'd need to somehow zoom the Technology to at least 150-200 years forward to ensure efficient settlement in lands outside North America and Australia and even so to settle Northern Canada and Inner Australia, which are empty even today. So why are we jumping to Africa?

 

[Emperor Gustavus Adolphus]

Even today, the Earthly Civilization has Space and Mars on our cards. But we just lack the technology to colonize them for an another few decades.

 

[Revachah]

Why don't people realize that more settler colonies will need a significant advancement in Technology from the OTL pathway?

You can't simply move into a land and settle. Food and energy supply needs to be taken into account and you can't occupy lands used by someone else "just like that".

You'd need to somehow zoom the Technology to at least 150-200 years forward to ensure efficient settlement in lands outside North America and Australia and even so to settle Northern Canada and Inner Australia, which are empty even today. So why are we jumping to Africa?

I mean yeah but that's not going to stop people on here from ASB colonialism posts so might as well have fun with it

Even today, the Earthly Civilization has Space and Mars on our cards. But we just lack the technology to colonize them for an another few decades.