European North America

If Europeans never brought slaves over (say... by thinking the slaves sold by the African slavers were so dumb that they might mess up simple tasks... or any other reason) is there a possibility of modern NA being 75% European? The native population was 90-97% wiped out by diseases already, so it seems the largest no European influx is from slaves.
 
If Europeans never brought slaves over . . . is there a possibility of modern NA being 75% European?
I think this demographic case was routinely met and exceeded in the Nineteenth Century and early Twentieth Century with respect to Canada, the United States, and Mexico combined. With modifications to US and Canadian immigration policy it could have been maintained to modern times. Not only is this achievable given the OP, but the difficulty will be in limiting the European population to 75%. In my opinion, the alternative population would have to come from Mestizo descended people, and Asian laborers.

There will still be English, French, and Dutch colonies in North America, however the settling of the Deep South will be markedly different, and likely much slower. The Cherokee and Creek had significant Mestizo portions by the Trail of Tears. I would expect that with less confrontation from the Carolinas and Georgia, the total Cherokee and Creek would grow as would their Mestizo portions. There is still going to be a westward momentum from the English colonies which probably still means Chinese migrant labor to develop the Pacific Coast (which happened in Mexico also). Without the expansionary impetus of Slave Power the timetable is up in the air for an eventual transcontinental country.

The Seven Years War is not assured, but I don't see the Louisiana Territory staying out of British-American hands.
 
I think this demographic case was routinely met and exceeded in the Nineteenth Century and early Twentieth Century with respect to Canada, the United States, and Mexico combined. With modifications to US and Canadian immigration policy it could have been maintained to modern times. Not only is this achievable given the OP, but the difficulty will be in limiting the European population to 75%.

Wait... wasn't the OTL Latin American population above 15% of NA population by 1900 (if we assume Mexio as 90% Latino, I never checked Mexico. ). If 15% of the NA population was already Latino, then I find it hard to believe that the Europeans actually exceeded 75%.
 
Wait... wasn't the OTL Latin American population above 15% of NA population by 1900 (if we assume Mexio as 90% Latino, I never checked Mexico. ). If 15% of the NA population was already Latino, then I find it hard to believe that the Europeans actually exceeded 75%.
Wikipedia - 1900 US Census
Total Pop = 76,212,168
Black Pop = 8,833,994 (11.6%)
15% Latino Pop per A.Z. = 11,431,825 (15%)
Remainder Pop = 55,946,349 (73.4%)

Total Less the Black Pop = 67,378,174
Remainder Pop new percentage = (83.0%)

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You said 15%, not 19% for Latino... woopsies, numbers redid
I'm not sure if that is what you were asking, but the 1900 US Census lists the White American Pop at 66,809,196. Again, I am inclined to say that if we consider North America as Canada, America, and Mexico then the White population would be at or above 75% pretty easily given the POD.
 
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Many Latinos are of European descent. Many others are Mestizo, so part European.

So I guess you should define "European". If you mean anyone with at least 50% European blood than many if not most Latinos would qualify. If you mean 99% or higher European blood than you have to somehow prevent mixed marriages...
 
So I guess you should define "European". If you mean anyone with at least 50% European blood than many if not most Latinos would qualify. If you mean 99% or higher European blood than you have to somehow prevent mixed marriages...

Ok... I'm going to make something arbitrary that excludes most of them just to make this easier... Do note this isn't a scientific definition of European, but just something I'm making up so that people don't get into arguments if population X qualifies or not.

Let's go with people with "low melanin skin content," ">7/8 European ancestry" and "could be confused for a native Englishman, an Irishman, a Welshman, a German, a Scandinavians, an Italian, a Spaniard, an Italian, a Hungarian, or Romanian." Mind you, they don't have to be of that ancestry, and I think lots of say... Russians can fit that description. But very few Latinos qualify (I mean, some could pass of as a native Spanish thanks to actual European ancestry, but most wouldn't).

Under this circumstance, a 75% or greater European population never happened in OTL since 1900 all the way to the present. Would making the English use more indenture servants instead of buying slaves from African Warlords be a POD enough to change that, assuming similar environmental events in OTL (an Irish potato famine does indeed happen, your imagination on if this changes NA demographics like OTL or not... I really don't know)? Or maybe not slave trading would simply lead to more use of latino labor?
 
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