Where would African Americans emigrate to in a more racist America scenario?

Potential locations

  • Canada/UK/Australia

    Votes: 49 56.3%
  • Latin America

    Votes: 6 6.9%
  • Western Europe

    Votes: 8 9.2%
  • Africa

    Votes: 18 20.7%
  • USSR (to show moral superiority )

    Votes: 1 1.1%
  • Asia

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other(explain)

    Votes: 5 5.7%

  • Total voters
    87
Seeing as how this is a Post-1900 thread, I'd say the most likely destination would surely be Canada, simply due to proximity.

The USSR also could be a likely area of immigration, seeing as how the Soviets made a show of accepting colored immigrants and promoted black students to study in Russian universities.
 
Forgetting about the closest outpost of the African Diaspora: The Caribbean

Not enough room for millions and the Dominican Republic is.....probably gonna open artillery fire against a flotilla of black refugees, but it'd still be a plausible option for many. A fair share of American Blacks already hail from the islands and still have family there. Much easier adjustment than going all the way back to freakin' Africa.

Still. Note what Anarch King of Dipsodes said. If race relations have gotten THAT BAD, the Caribbean probably isn't far away enough from Amerikkka. They certainly weren't in "What Madness is This?".
 
Neither did the NRA.
There is Semi colon there too... ,

BTW how about population exechange USA taking Rhodesians and Afrikaans?
Without that oppressive population Both African countries would be better off right?

Now I will stop posting because otherwise ban hammer will appear from sky. But definitely there is s....t load of lurkers not posting funny comments.
 
In large numbers? Probably nowhere.

The U.S. is huge, and really pretty isolated. Without funds, black folks would be largely restricted largely to land migration or to short-distance "boat people" travel.

Try walking from Georgia to the Mexican or Canadian border, without money for food. Try packing entire passenger trains without money, and in the face of hostile railroad officials and intensely discriminatory travel rules (including small provision for "Colored Only" railroad cars).
Besides, neither Canada nor Mexico will particularly want them, and will turn back or deport numbers that are considered "excessive".

Fairly small, heavily-packed boats could reach Cuba or the Caribbean islands from most southern coastal regions. But the Spanish (later American) authorities in Cuba will act to curb the practice. The Caribbean islands cannot take many.

You could probably manage "bulk cargoes" of black people on steamships (much like Irish immigrants to the U.S.), but what countries will need/want them? Not Europe. Maybe some British colonial possessions that seek non-indigenous labor, but social/economic/labor conditions in such places would likely be as bad as those from which the people were fleeing.

I figure in this circumstance, most African-Americans will have little choice but to remain in the U.S., segregate themselves and try to avoid interaction, and simply endure the misery and hatred.

Sadly.
 
So, a lot of people say that the African-Americans wouldn't have enough money to emigrate, but how much money did the Italians and Irish have compared to them? Not to mention that travel should be cheaper due to the airplane as you just need enough money to buy a one way ticket.
 
Cuba?

Might end up with an accelerated Hispanic emigration to offset African American immigration. Still going to end up with Cuba being impoverished but will have a larger supply of anti-capitalist "volunteers" for Africa and South America. Race war by proxy?
 
So, a lot of people say that the African-Americans wouldn't have enough money to emigrate, but how much money did the Italians and Irish have compared to them? Not to mention that travel should be cheaper due to the airplane as you just need enough money to buy a one way ticket.
Steerage class travel in the old passenger ships was 'cheap'. Entire families would pull together to get enough money to send over a likely young lad. Who would be expected to save up HIS money, when he got to America (US, Canada, Argentina, wherever) and pay for passage for e.g. his parents and sibs, then they earned the money to pay for cousins, etc.

The US Blacks have to get to the coast, firstly. Find some place that will take them (not likely). And when they arrive, hope they can do better than back home - which, if they're going to Haiti, say, would be really, really tricky.
 
How about the *ultimate* emigration? No, I don't mean outer space, that would be clearly ASB. But mass suicide might not be....

ITTL, an African American demagogue, possibly a religious leader, starts the "Hell is better than America" movement, encouraging mass suicide as an improvement over life in the super-racist United States. Although I could put an alt-MLK or an alt-Malcolm Little in this position, I think the timing would be wrong. 1920 or so is what I have in mind.

So, anyway, this demagogue kicks off the "Leaving for Hell" movement by orchestrating the simultaneous suicide of 1,000 African Americans, including himself, at a New Year's Eve "Nightwatch" event (common in AA churches at the time). The event is geographically distributed among many locations so as to be harder for outsiders to prevent.

The more extreme racists in the White community respond with, "Good riddance!" The moderates say nothing. A few more intellectual Whites bemoan the tragedy but no one cares what they say.

In the wake of the leader's "Departure", other seemingly spontaneous "Departures" ranging from dozens to hundreds of African Americans each happen every day for the next few years, until the number of African Americans left is so low the White racists no longer really care about their presence anymore.
 
I could see a few fanatics/people who already had suicidal tendencies doing that, but almost the entire black population of the United States committing suicide?
Not even the Jews in Nazi Germany or slaves were reduced to that. I think the will to live is strong enough that most blacks would try to fight back, escape, or ride it out rather than commit suicide.
 
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