If the US were a monarchy, would it have received a different level of immigration?

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If the Thirteen Colonies formed a monarchist state, or the US had recognizable beginnings but became a monarchy later on, how would it affect immigration to the area of the modern day US? Would it be less than OTL? Roughly equivalent? Or an increased amount?

Assume Texas, the Southwest, and Oregon are still taken.
 
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The USA is empty by default, it will get inmigration much like otl, but depending how 'property laws' works, i would imagine something like even more crowed in cities with nobles rulling the landside with workers from cities and later fully mechanized.

I imagine even more petit nobles packing anything they can and change for hard cash to start over again.

Plus more french when the revolution start rolling nobles heads, i can imagine nobles escaping en masse to louisana.
 
A lot depends on what sort of monarchy. IS it absolutist like Louis XIV? (unlikely). Is it constitutional where the monarch is head of state without much power? As long as it is fairly liberal compared to Europe, land is open for settlers (not millions of acres given to lucky nobles), you have religious freedom, then you'll get lots of immigration.
 

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I think USA being a republic and having no nobles like in Europe had a lot of poor people increase their dreams about USA as the place were ordinary people could prosper without paying for the luxuries of the old elites. I guess the new elites showed up not much better but the prospect of getting your own land for free or very little probably was most important and I guess an ATL Monarch of USA could institute that as well.
 
A lot depends on what sort of monarchy. IS it absolutist like Louis XIV? (unlikely). Is it constitutional where the monarch is head of state without much power? As long as it is fairly liberal compared to Europe, land is open for settlers (not millions of acres given to lucky nobles), you have religious freedom, then you'll get lots of immigration.
What about Russia? Autocrathic monarchy but offered land and some liberty to settlers from Germany and such.
 
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