How do we maximise the number of ethnic enclaves in America? Not just Southerners in the South, or Asians in Hawaii, or Puerto Ricans and Samoans and Polynesians, but as many as possible.
1. Quebec after the ARW, or the War of 1812, or an extension of the ACW.
2. Blacks in Louisana and Texas after the ACW.
3. Indian country. Maybe Utah is Indian and the railroad is built someplace else, like across the northern plains and that leaves Utah alone? Perhaps if we annex all of Canada we leave the Arctic watershed as native only? See below with Alaska.
4. Hispanics in southern California. In OTL California almost split. If it does in this OTL then Hispanic immigration would not be limited by the Anglo dominated northern California. Maybe Baja California is annexed in 1845?
5. Hawaii without Asian immigrants is native Hawaiian. Or only male immigrants are let in and it is culturally Hawaiian because the different groups lose their numerous ethnic identities to their common ethnic identity of their mother. Say, the country allows Indian immigration while independent to reduce the preponderance of Chinese, then Japanese, then Phillipino imported labor.
6. Alaska doesn't have a gold rush. The Russians aren't diluted and move there preferentially for fishing, lumbering, etc. After the Russian civil war they get even more immigrants. Their population increase is slower, but it keeps a Russian identity.
7. We annex more of the Carribean. Maybe we keep Haiti after 1916 and make it a territory like Puerto Rico. They are allowed to immigrate to Puerto Rico for cheap labor and a gap in the rules let them remigrate to the US after they and their children are in Puerto Rico a few years and this qualifies them for American citizenship? Then we don't dump them later, as in 1932 in OTL.
8. We annex more of the Pacific islands from Spain. All of them, starting in 1900, and we don't annex the Phillipines.
9. We annex Mindanao from the Phillipines because of antiCatholic prejudice preventing us from annexing it all. Mindanao had less Spanish economic development than the Christian parts of the Phillipines, so more room for economic imperialism on our part.
1. Quebec after the ARW, or the War of 1812, or an extension of the ACW.
2. Blacks in Louisana and Texas after the ACW.
3. Indian country. Maybe Utah is Indian and the railroad is built someplace else, like across the northern plains and that leaves Utah alone? Perhaps if we annex all of Canada we leave the Arctic watershed as native only? See below with Alaska.
4. Hispanics in southern California. In OTL California almost split. If it does in this OTL then Hispanic immigration would not be limited by the Anglo dominated northern California. Maybe Baja California is annexed in 1845?
5. Hawaii without Asian immigrants is native Hawaiian. Or only male immigrants are let in and it is culturally Hawaiian because the different groups lose their numerous ethnic identities to their common ethnic identity of their mother. Say, the country allows Indian immigration while independent to reduce the preponderance of Chinese, then Japanese, then Phillipino imported labor.
6. Alaska doesn't have a gold rush. The Russians aren't diluted and move there preferentially for fishing, lumbering, etc. After the Russian civil war they get even more immigrants. Their population increase is slower, but it keeps a Russian identity.
7. We annex more of the Carribean. Maybe we keep Haiti after 1916 and make it a territory like Puerto Rico. They are allowed to immigrate to Puerto Rico for cheap labor and a gap in the rules let them remigrate to the US after they and their children are in Puerto Rico a few years and this qualifies them for American citizenship? Then we don't dump them later, as in 1932 in OTL.
8. We annex more of the Pacific islands from Spain. All of them, starting in 1900, and we don't annex the Phillipines.
9. We annex Mindanao from the Phillipines because of antiCatholic prejudice preventing us from annexing it all. Mindanao had less Spanish economic development than the Christian parts of the Phillipines, so more room for economic imperialism on our part.