CSA/Texas NA answer to Brazil and Argentina?

Valdemar II

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I was thinking in a timeline where CSA survive, more or less with all their territorium intact, and Texas secced later from CSA, would CSA be NA answer to Brazil, while Texas would be the answer to Argentina.

CSA would be country dominated by a small White majority, while a large Coloured and Black minority was de facto second class citizen, the slave would likely be freed rather late, while the economy would be based on mostly on a rather diverse agriculture and raw material industry. Likely they would in the late 19th century early 20th adopted a whitening emigration policy, where they tried to make European immigrant come to CSA, most of the settlers would end up in the north and the highland, while the Deep South would stay very Coloured/Black.

Texas would be dominated by a large White majority, with a few small African and Amerindian minority, it would be very thinly populated and have a economy mostly based on one or primary industries in Texas case cattle and oil. Likely they would adopt a rather open trade policy based mostly on sale of primary product and buying of secondary products. It would be a major immigration country with lot of European settlers.
 
In terms of Race possible, but I think there wouldn't many more similarities.

Besides the different cultures and stuff, Brazil and Argentina just has so much more going for them...at least in the sense that they could become superpowers.
 

Valdemar II

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In terms of Race possible, but I think there wouldn't many more similarities.

Besides the different cultures and stuff, Brazil and Argentina just has so much more going for them...at least in the sense that they could become superpowers.

Not really, Argentina at best could become a Latin-American France, while Brazil had the same problems as Russia, enourmous territorium but much of it wasn't really usable for the state (with the coast and south serving the same positíon as European Russia), of course in the long term it has become so.

CSA is ironic enough in a much better position purely geographical, the north is in a perfect position to industrialise, while the Depp South was nice cash crop territorium. The south problem will likely be purely cultural with a policies which favour primary production rather than secondary.
 
Texas would be dominated by a large White majority, with a few small African and Amerindian minority, it would be very thinly populated and have a economy mostly based on one or primary industries in Texas case cattle and oil. Likely they would adopt a rather open trade policy based mostly on sale of primary product and buying of secondary products. It would be a major immigration country with lot of European settlers.

Without continued white immigration Texas would lose its white majority to its Latino citizens. Tho exactly what are you qualifying as 'white' in this idea?
 

Valdemar II

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Without continued white immigration Texas would lose its white majority to its Latino citizens. Tho exactly what are you qualifying as 'white' in this idea?

Europeans and Middleeasten (Arab Christians was qualified as white in OTL i areas with some Metize population). But Texas could easy receive European immigration in the periode all American countries received large scale European immigration.

Beside that Mexico is going to be in entire different situation, with a weaker USA, it's likely Napoleon III* will continue supporting the Empire of Mexico, which will likely result in it surviving, it will translate into a more stable Mexico, which will result in it being richer and receiving more European immigration. So less cross border emigration to Texas and California.

*Plus without the public humiliation of being forced to leave Mexico, he will likely not declare war on Prussia.
 
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