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Banned
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proposed_provinces_and_territories_of_Canada: "In 1911, at the request of the Bahamian House of Assembly, the Canadian and the Bahamian governments began serious negotiations for Bahamian accession to the Canadian confederation. However, a racial panic ignited by the migration of over one thousand African-Americans fleeing violence in Oklahoma derailed the discussions. Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier turned against the idea, citing incompatible "ethnical origin". After Laurier lost the September 1911 federal election, Bahamian Governor William Grey-Wilson travelled to Canada to reopen accession talks with newly elected PM Robert Borden. In a meeting between Grey and Borden on 18 October 1911, Borden rejected the possibility of taking the Bahamas into the Canadian confederation. His reasoning was that the events of the past year had proved that Canadian public opinion would not countenance the admission of a majority-black province. The British Colonial Office concurred: "No doubt for the moment the Dominion government would safeguard their interests, but there are signs of the rise of a colour question in Canada and in any case it cannot be long before U.S. opinion gives the tone to Canada in regard the Negro.""
So what if the African-Americans of Oklahoma did not migrate to Canada and the Bahamas successfully joined Canada? What effects would this have on the Bahamas and Canada?
So what if the African-Americans of Oklahoma did not migrate to Canada and the Bahamas successfully joined Canada? What effects would this have on the Bahamas and Canada?
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