I Blame Communism
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It would be quite a lot easier to let Britain have some colonies, but much more limited than in OTL, maybe if force "orthodocy" on them like French, which only premitted Catholic settlers, let's say Britain only premit High Anglican settlers, and keep much more tight control with their colonies, the result that they only get Virginia, and it become something much more like Quebec than the Commonwealth.
That's an interesting idea. That the British colonies were so full of people who were not wanted in and didn't want the mother country gave them their strength, in many ways, which you could call the most basic root of the American Revolution. If Britain's policies were like those of France...
Or France's like those of Britain... Huguenot *USA, anyone?