Demographics of Argentina if there's an italian colony in the New World

So I was looking at a nice AH map the other day about an "Italian overseas territory" called Nuova Toscana in the area of the Guyanas and the Orinoco river, based on the Thornton Expedition, and I was thinking:

If this somehow happened, how would it have affected the demographics of Argentina, ignoring butterflies and assuming everything else in the colonization process happens the same? I ask about Argentina specifically because more than half of its current population (62.5%) has at least one Italian ancestor, and there are 25 million Italian Argentines.

So, if the Italians actually were successful in establishing such a colony, how would that affect Argentina's demographics? What ethnicity would take the Italians place? How would that affect other things, such as language, culture - specifically football, food?
 

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Perhaps very little. The Italian Caribbean colony would have an Italian elite but probably an African slave majority with some assorted Greeks, Lebanese and Tunisiansforming a small middle class.

Italians wanting a decent wage and healthy climate later on still go mostly to Argentina, Brazil, the US and Canada.
 
So I was looking at a nice AH map the other day about an "Italian overseas territory" called Nuova Toscana in the area of the Guyanas and the Orinoco river, based on the Thornton Expedition, and I was thinking:

If this somehow happened, how would it have affected the demographics of Argentina, ignoring butterflies and assuming everything else in the colonization process happens the same? I ask about Argentina specifically because more than half of its current population (62.5%) has at least one Italian ancestor, and there are 25 million Italian Argentines.

So, if the Italians actually were successful in establishing such a colony, how would that affect Argentina's demographics? What ethnicity would take the Italians place? How would that affect other things, such as language, culture - specifically football, food?

I do not think there would be a significant effect. A Tuscan colony in the Guyanas would be incapable of diverting more than a very small number of Italians from more attractive locations like Argentina.
 
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