Marc
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There is quite a bit of material on how an apartheid society functioned in regards to sports, as exemplified in South Africa (which is the logical real history analogue), the bottom line is that policies were in place to make even separate black participation in sports virtually impossible - spanning from no sports education in black schools, to no money for amateur play (equipment, fields, etc), to heavy restriction or outright bans on any kind of sport league.
The goal was to keep blacks under control, in all respects - which means you can't risk any cultural heroes at all.
Apartheid made Jim Crow segregation appear moderate by comparison.
Sorry, I would have to persuaded that somehow the South developed a higher moral conscience than the Afrikaners, in the decades after successfully rebelling.
What do you think about the ability of the North to be able to bring in Blacks from the South as OTL sports bring in players from overseas? (Baseball with Cuban, Dominican, Haiti, Puerto Ricans and basketball with Slavic, Italian, and Chinese) Would the South allow their Apartheid downtrodden Blacks to leave for the North for sports reasons?
See above. Some of those foreign athletes may have come from poverty, but they have the developed skill sets (best secondary school baseball game I ever saw, and I've seen a few, was in Santo Domingo).
The goal was to keep blacks under control, in all respects - which means you can't risk any cultural heroes at all.
Apartheid made Jim Crow segregation appear moderate by comparison.
Sorry, I would have to persuaded that somehow the South developed a higher moral conscience than the Afrikaners, in the decades after successfully rebelling.
What do you think about the ability of the North to be able to bring in Blacks from the South as OTL sports bring in players from overseas? (Baseball with Cuban, Dominican, Haiti, Puerto Ricans and basketball with Slavic, Italian, and Chinese) Would the South allow their Apartheid downtrodden Blacks to leave for the North for sports reasons?
See above. Some of those foreign athletes may have come from poverty, but they have the developed skill sets (best secondary school baseball game I ever saw, and I've seen a few, was in Santo Domingo).
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