Portugal has been ahead of the CSA for a long time, even before the 1970s. The CSA is where Portugal was , what maybe 1940 or so?
About 1948-49, I think. African-Americans in Dixie are, thankfully, no longer victims of state-sanctioned discrimination and are truly getting the chance to be able to fully participate in society since the end of the '80s, but there's still a lot of residual racism left, especially from the sons and daughters of those former Rhettian/Milesian/Yanceyite planters who didn't leave for Rhodesia, Transvaal or New Wessex when the shit hit the fan.
Portugal, on the other hand, was showing tendencies towards egalitarianism as early as 1942, when the first Creole Prime Minister was elected on the heels of support for the new President of Brazil, also a Creole. I realize a lot of this early action was in reaction to the situation at the time but it was still a major step forward. Also, I'd like to point out, too, that Britain elected an Indian PM in 1956 & a Jamaican in 1967, France an Algerian in 1974 & a Lebanese in 1988, Italy a Serbian President in 1979, New Zealand a Maori woman in 1969, and Canadian voters put two First Nations people in office, once in 1967 and again in 1992; the latter a woman. Even Australians elected an Aboriginal PM in 1989, and they're one of the more conservative of the (non-South African) Commonwealth members!
And we elected an African-American president for a term in 1988 here in the Union.....whereas even the Second Confederate Republic has yet to elect any minorities or women to the highest position in the office. In fact, there was one Hispanic congressman from Hockley, West Florida, elected in 1982.....and he was half-German. And only won 55% of the vote. Despite being somewhat conservative and about as pale as could be.
OOC: Hockley, West Florida, btw, is on the eastern side of Mobile Bay opposite the city of Mobile; this city would be in Alabama if it existed in our world.
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