Effects On More Spanish Colonization of the Americas

If Spain removed the immigration barriers that prevented mass settlement of the Americas, how would Spain's American empire's demographics be altered? Would more areas in North America be considered Spanish? How would the economy change?
 
I think that Latin America would be much whiter. I believe there would be less income inequality today. But remember, certain Latin American countries had set up policies called 'blanquiamento', that encouraged European immigration. Countries like Argentina have been successful at that.
 
I think that Latin America would be much whiter. I believe there would be less income inequality today. But remember, certain Latin American countries had set up policies called 'blanquiamento', that encouraged European immigration. Countries like Argentina have been successful at that.

Native American majorities in Peru and Bolivia do mean more mestizos though.
 
It was already a drain IOTL, so I suspect that past the first waves, it would provoke enough of a taskforce crisis in peninsula Spain to stop and increasing the XVIIth decline (with echoes in Americas themselves)
 
But remember, certain Latin American countries had set up policies called 'blanquiamento', that encouraged European immigration. Countries like Argentina have been successful at that.
Not just Argentina, but also Uruguay; I'm actually thinking of Chile, but they're more mestizo
 
Isn't the classic division between exploitation colonies and settlement colonies? That is, a colony where people go in order to profit, and come home again with said profit to a better status in the home country, and the opposite a colony were people go to build new homes and societies for themselves?

Of course there is really a spectrum, there are always a few people who settle in exploitation colonies, (like most of the spanish population of latin america), sometimes cultural values move and sometimes it's just a free for all, British Africa providing many examples, which India was is a matter of debate, but North America's success is hard to fault until very recently, historically, and Latin America...oh dear oh dear.

Which does more harm to the natives is debatable, but looking at the pattern of it all, if we are looking at Latin America going from an exploitation to a settlement colony, I can't think that would have been a bad thing, overall- it could hardly have made the locals' lives much worse than they already were, and the Spaniards might have behaved more productively than simple smash and grab.
 
I think that Latin America would be much whiter. I believe there would be less income inequality today. But remember, certain Latin American countries had set up policies called 'blanquiamento', that encouraged European immigration. Countries like Argentina have been successful at that.

Would majority still be mestizo? How would native Americans be affected?
 
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