Different Mestizo races

None.

The Iberian peninsula is geographically predetermined to play some part in the colonisation of the Americas. About the only way you are going to avoid that is by surrounding the peninsula with sea serpents... but that's just ASB.
:confused: And why's that? I can think of two scenarios off the top of my head in which Iberia plays a minor role:

1. America is colonized during a period when Iberia politically fragmented or tumultuous (as it was for much of the time from the fall of Rome to the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella)

2. America is colonized from the Pacific side.
 
There's always India World from Sliders Earth Prime :)

Hm... Interesting, but probably wouldn't be any more culturally "Mestizo" than California is today (barring Latin American immigration). California's Native Americans were mostly hunter-gatherers and simple farming societies, I believe. Imagine hybrid Indian-Mesoamerican or Indian-Andean cultures...
 
Well, also remember that aside for actual ethnicity, these Mestizo races would all have some sort of hybridized culture. Anyone want to pick one and try to flesh one out (so to speak)?

The French-settled Mexico from Mustafa the Pretender is still prominent in my mind. Even though Faeelin didn't actually describe it much.
 
In the timeline Cortesia, at the moment there are going to be three main mixed race groups emerging. In Mesoamerica is a Hispano-Mesoamerican elite emerging in the Naiua Empire, Tlaxcala, and the Tarascans while up north in Newfoundland, the Portuguese are intermixing with the natives and the same will happen with the Danes.
 
In the timeline Cortesia, at the moment there are going to be three main mixed race groups emerging. In Mesoamerica is a Hispano-Mesoamerican elite emerging in the Naiua Empire, Tlaxcala, and the Tarascans while up north in Newfoundland, the Portuguese are intermixing with the natives and the same will happen with the Danes.
 
Well it also depends on the overall way colonizers go about colonizing the Americas; and if there is the cultural space for such mixed peoples to develop into a distinct identity. Latin American Mestizos came about as a result of Spain not so much as creating settler colonies, but more of an idea of using the existing population to exploit needed resources such colonies offered (somewhat like Africa and Asian colonies). Race as we think of it didn't exist so much as a concept either. It was more about the fact the Natives weren't Christian, which gave the colonizers the excuse to dehumanize the Indians. Mestizo as an identity came about not only because of mixing between the Spanish and Natives, but as a way to divide and conquer the indigenous. It was like saying 'your almost human enough to hang with us', thus giving a group a little bit of privileged over another; which is why in Latin America of today, Mestizo means more then just a mixed heritage, but includes 'full-blooded' Indians who've adopted western clothing and culture.

Now the Metis of Canada came about as a truly distinct culture, as they merged the cultures of both their parents and thus becoming a separate ethnic group. This is a far cry from say someone who is mixed back then or today, who is mixed, but identifies with either or all of their heritages.
 
Also the lands the Spanish conquered were a lot heavily more populated so there were plenty of natives even after the epidemics wiped a lot of them out.
 
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