US Population with no Chinese Exclusion Act

Magical123

Banned
Hmm I'd have to look at the numbers but you'd have more and more Chinese immigration to California and petering out to other western states.

You'll still have "China towns" though perhaps larger and not viewed as either places not to be or places to buy exotic stuff.

I don't know regarding the urban/rural divide I imagine the Chinese will congregate in the cities within the rural population remaining White.

Culture wise well I'm not sure you might have less Asian stereotypes in movies and what not.

With a larger Chinese population the perception of Chinese as people who push there kids to succeed at math and violin won't be as widespread.

You might by say 1910-1920 have a growing middle class of Chinese with their own professions and businesses.

Beyond that it's just guessing on my part.
 

PhilippeO

Banned
will Chinese immigrant able to import wives ? if they not rich enough and doing only menial jobs, Chinese number would be reduced in next generation.
 
Whatever size the ASB that set this up wants is the obvious answer.

More seriously, how are you going to pull off a 'no Chinese Exclusion Act'? If it's just due to State bans instead of Federal ones, then there's no significant difference. If it's informal, Chinese just aren't allowed in, then there'll be a few more, maybe.

Given the outcry against the Chinese (even if the phrase 'Yellow Peril' hadn't been coined yet, or had it?) I can't see any believable way for Chinese immigrants to be treated like whites.
 
Given the outcry against the Chinese (even if the phrase 'Yellow Peril' hadn't been coined yet, or had it?) I can't see any believable way for Chinese immigrants to be treated like whites.

Not treated like whites, but I can think of a few ways to drastically improve the treatment of Chinese immigrants in the United States.

1. Reduce white labor tensions. Most anti-Chinese sentiment and legislation was born out of the industrial struggles of the late 19th century. Chinese were an easy scapegoat for industrial and union bosses that couldn't or wouldn't provide results demanded of them by white workers.

2. Reduce the amount of Chinese immigrants. If there aren't very many of them, they won't be perceived as a threat. Historically Asian immigrants were treated like whites in the U.S. South, as there simply weren't many compared to the large black population. America was a black-white binary from Bacon's Rebellion onward, but the perception of Asians is likely to be more malleable.

3. Have the Chinese government be powerful enough to lobby on behalf of Chinese immigrants. Though a stronger China would also prevent it from being a huge source of dirt cheap labor. You'd probably see the demographic profile being a lot more similar to Japanese Americans --- mostly middle class and literate.


I think a big change of a later Chinese Exclusion Act would be on the demographics of Hawaii. It would be Chinese-dominated, akin to a giant Christmas Island, rather than a hodge-podge of groups with Japanese being the prestige culture like OTL.
 
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