Where else could white minority regimes emerge?

Where in the world was there the potential for a minority of European colonists to form a white minority state like Rhodesia or South Africa?
 
Where in the world was there the potential for a minority of European colonists to form a white minority state like Rhodesia or South Africa?

French Vietnam, Dutch Indonesia, Belgian Congo.... if somehow their struggle for independence would end up differently
 
Algeria could also be a candidate with its population of 1 million Frenchmen and close ties to the metropole. If the Fourth Republic still falls apart but the French in Algeria keep control of the country and maintain independence, it could theoretically emerge as a white minority rule state. How long it might endure however is another matter entirely.
 
Is there a minimum proportion for a minority to dominate a majority? Was Rhodesia with five to ten percent white the extreme?
I guess French Indochina would have the best chance then. In colonial times, the French heavily relied on the middle class of ethnically Chinese and Tonkin-Chinese traders to act as go-between and negotiators between them and the local Viet population. If they kept this system in place, there would effectively be a three-tier minority system with one French for twenty Chinese for 400 locals.
 
I suppose some ethnic Russian ruled state could emerge in Central Asia, until one of the neighbors decides to get rid of that nonsense.
 
I suppose some ethnic Russian ruled state could emerge in Central Asia, until one of the neighbors decides to get rid of that nonsense.

What if that happened to Kazakhstan? They’re one-fifth ethnic Russian I believe, so could Kazakhstan go apartheid? (Russian rule)




On a totally unrelated note, I found a way to make Borat a lot more depressing ...
 
I suppose ethnic Russians could try to rule Kazakhstan, but even with support from Russia itself, it'll Afghanistan times ten for Russia, since all the neighbors (and NATO, assuming we're talking about a post WWII PoD, will aid various rebel groups).
 
I suppose ethnic Russians could try to rule Kazakhstan, but even with support from Russia itself, it'll Afghanistan times ten for Russia, since all the neighbors (and NATO, assuming we're talking about a post WWII PoD, will aid various rebel groups).


I believe Zhurinovsky was born in Almaty. Imagine mad Vlad as the leader of an apartheid Kazakhstan.
 
As always, bear in mind that race is an arbitrary concept in many ways, and different societies conceptualize it differently. Look at Latin America - several countries in the region with indigenous or multiracial majorities or pluralities are effectively ruled by a largely European-descended minority. Even in a place such as Cuba, a country that has a black majority by some measures, my understanding is that the local communist elite is still disproportionately composed of people with predominantly European ancestry.

Yet I do not see people putting Cuba in the same category as apartheid South Africa.
 
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If Katanga stays independent, or if one of the French African colonies pull a UDI and go the Rhodesia route. That’s about it, unlike other continents, in Africa they could more easily justify white rule by pointing out the failure of their decolonized neighbors.
 
What about a surviving German Namibia with friendly relations with the Afrikaners?

Hold on, this gives me an idea. The Germans keep Namibia in a less harsh Versailles, and a certain syphilitic Bavarian lance-corporal moves there and founds the Namibian National Socialist Workers Party?
 
I guess French Indochina would have the best chance then. In colonial times, the French heavily relied on the middle class of ethnically Chinese and Tonkin-Chinese traders to act as go-between and negotiators between them and the local Viet population. If they kept this system in place, there would effectively be a three-tier minority system with one French for twenty Chinese for 400 locals.
As a Chinese, I consider this scenario very intriguing to say the least...
Could a white minority state emerge in Burma? IIRC there were 300,000 people of English descent there.
 
Rhodesia sort of works for reasons that might not be present elsewhere. Like a powerful patron neighbouring them whom they were already tightly economically and culturally integrated with, a powerful neighbor, Portuguese Mozambique who helped provide support for the first decade or so after UDI and of course vast sympathy in the colonial power (although not the government).
 
Algeria could also be a candidate with its population of 1 million Frenchmen and close ties to the metropole. If the Fourth Republic still falls apart but the French in Algeria keep control of the country and maintain independence, it could theoretically emerge as a white minority rule state. How long it might endure however is another matter entirely.
Probably just the coast. The interior wasn’t really ever under the direct control of the French.
 
Mozambique and Angola? There was a very small attempt to launch a coup in Lourenço Marques in 74 but it wasn’t supported at all and was quickly thwarted, if Portugal gets a communist government (I know that it was militarily unlikely)( could they become white led independant states? Even if it lasts for 6 months or so.

Another idea: New Caledonia that has to become independant following some limited Nazi victory or France somehow becoming authoritarian.
 
I feel like Singapore could be like that. The British colonists had no issue playing divide and conquer between their Chinese, Indian, and Malay subjects. I could see them remaining in Singapore after ww2, keeping themselves as the ruling class.
 
I feel like Singapore could be like that. The British colonists had no issue playing divide and conquer between their Chinese, Indian, and Malay subjects. I could see them remaining in Singapore after ww2, keeping themselves as the ruling class.
Are there enough whites in Singapore at the time? I only remember them being at about 1% of the population.
 
Are there enough whites in Singapore at the time? I only remember them being at about 1% of the population.
As long as they have enough soldiers, I couldn't see why not. If I remember from reading some memoir from Singaporeans, British governers often had large escorts of Indian/British soldiers to keep the "peace". They'll probably have to give more rights to their Chinese populations, but they could still remain in power if done right. British colonialists are kind of notorious for somehow remaining in control despite making up barely 5%.
 
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