Where else could white minority regimes emerge?

Derek Pullem

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There was too many Chinese living in British Hong Kong for that to happened.
Of course all those Chinese have so much influence under the Chinese Communist Party rule today, don't they? A gerrymandered system like the legislative council might function under minority white rule too (as opposed to minority Beijing rule)
 
Of course all those Chinese have so much influence under the Chinese Communist Party rule today, don't they? A gerrymandered system like the legislative council might function under minority white rule too (as opposed to minority Beijing rule)

That's not exactly what OP entailed, as he said it has be to apartheid style like South Africa, which would not allow native participation.

The CCP exercise mostly political and high level influence to highest echelon of the Hong Kong Administraction and the local bureaucracy is alien to its mainland counterpart.

It is more similar to the late period Raj or French African holdings than than South Africa.
 
Not to be patronizing or anything, but great ideas. To clarify - I didn't necessarily mean a Rhodesia/SA type of situation. I mean any regime ruled by a sizable minority of 1 million+ people over a much larger majority. Even the one party systems where it takes work and effort to get into the ruling party, such as China, might qualify.

Well, if that still allows for the existance of a small, urban elite of assimilated blacks who have more or less the same rights as the the white minority, then Angola in a "soft" decolonization scenario would fit the bill. Gerrymandering and registration troubles would keep the rural black population from having much of a say in the government, even without any sort of institutionalized racism.
 
That's not exactly what OP entailed, as he said it has be to apartheid style like South Africa, which would not allow native participation.

The CCP exercise mostly political and high level influence to highest echelon of the Hong Kong Administraction and the local bureaucracy is alien to its mainland counterpart.

It is more similar to the late period Raj or French African holdings than than South Africa.
See the fourth post about yours. De facto segregation meets it just as well.
 
See the fourth post about yours. De facto segregation meets it just as well.

Is it really "white" minority rule when 97%-99% of the bureaucrats, polices and soldiers are of different ethnicity? There isn't simply enough Englishmen in HK to fill all but the highest echelon of the government?
 
The rest of the United States is majority white, though.

It is not hard to picture a world with an independent Deep South with some point of divergence in the 18th or 19th century, or even just, say, an independent South Carolina. Such states would likely have black majorities but white ruling classes.

Furthermore, one can imagine a world without the French Revolution, or at least without a successful Haitian Revolution, where Saint-Domingue remains a French colony for much longer and gains independence at some point in the 20th century whilst retaining a white French elite.
 
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What about non-white minorities taking over. I think it was Fiji where the locals put a heap of restrictions on the local Indians because they were getting too much control. And of course Ethnic Chinese power was the whole reason behind Singapore.
 
Kenyan here. The possibility of that is low seeing as how whites in Kenya number 67,000 by the census conducted a decade ago, which is higher that the white population during British Rule. To have an effective minority state, you'd need about 100,000+ during the 50's, so that a pro-white party like the Rhodesian Front could gain a majority so that they could leverage a bid for independence. There was a party shortly before Kenya's independence(forgot the name) that believed whites should be incharge if the country temporarily since most blacks were uneducated and stuff but the KANU party ended up leading us to independence. If this party were to gain the support of a substantive white population, they could then arbitrarily declare independence like what happened in Rhodesia, then lock blacks out of government and establish a minority regime. The remnants of the Land and Freedom Army(Mau Mau) would probably try to destabilize the government, and might get backed up by KANU or another Black Nationalist party like ZAPU and ZANU in Zimbabwe, launching a Bush War in the forests of Central Kenya. However, it would be more difficult for these fighters since unlike ZANLA and ZIPRA, they would be surrounded on all sides. It could develop into a proxy war between East and West. I'm just glad that never happened. Oh, it was also proposed that Nairobi be renamed Coldbrook, which is the English equivalent of the name, which is likely in this alternate TL.
Balkanization, a white homeland, an intergrated non kikiru state and a separate home for Kenyatta and his buddies.
 
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