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That thread about a British Mexico and Peru, and the possibility of it evolving into a class system, got me thinking....

WI one of Britains campaigns against Latin America is succesfull, and its siezes...say central America, including Panama, from Spain. Assume that they gain it at the congress, but don't recieve the Cape Colony, or Ceylon, which is returned to the Dutch in excange for their Carribean colonies. Or something like that. Anyway, bottom line-Britain sends their OTL Cape settlers to Central America.

But the rest of the world is largely irrelevant to this post. OTL, this region has a large Amerindian population, as well as a large white population, and Mestizos dominate. Along with Brtish immigration (perhaps not so much because of the climate), the European population would recieve a boost-but I think it would be unlikely to reach higher then 30% or 40 %.
So could this region become one of the Commonwealths, around that era, and install an Apartheid system similar to South Africa? It would have a larger percentage white population which would make it easier. The presence of Afrikanners, and their pre-eminence among the White population during the Apartheid, also shows the Spanishness of the commonwealth need not be a problem. So could an Apartheid regime establish itself? Would it be ASB for it to last at least as long as South Africa's, due to being next to the USA?

One way may be to manage this maybe to have a CSA victory, if the civil war itself isn't butterflied (please don't turn this into an endless debate about the civil war or CSA support by the way. Its not critical).

One thought-the class/apartheid system is likely far more intricate, given the variations in race in the region:

Population wise:
Mestizos dominant
Whites and Amerindians important minorities
Blacks a rather small minority

Also theirs much variation in the make up depending on the region of Central America.

Discuss this horrible Central American Dystopia:D

Edit:Oh, and would it be more likely to fragment or survive as a single state? Perhaps Apartheid and non-Apartheid central-American states at war?
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