Summary: I'm wondering if we would similarly get a setup where there's multiple Anglo states in South America (for kicks maybe we can make Brazil into a French state - Antarctique), Central America is also a group of fractious Anglophone states, and finally North America is more united by a centralized Hispanophone state controlling the Mississippi watershed.
Rationale: The Brazilian United Americas thread got me thinking - is geography destiny? The fate of North America and Latin America have a lot to do with political, cultural, social, and religious factors, but harsh geography likely undeniably caused South America to be fragmented, Central America to be underdeveloped, while North America had the huge breadbasket of the Great Plains up to the Canadian Prairies. Not sure how Mexico fits in- it's got a lot of desert in the north and jungle in the south east, but the rest seem fine and it's blessed with natural resources.
Also, another major factor is the indigenous populations. There were far more aboriginal peoples from like Central Mexico southwards, while the natives in Anglo North America were relatively diffuse and less economically advanced. And given the different types of colonization patterns and so on and the different colonizing cultures involved, things could go very different.
A mestizo/metis - what's the English version, mixed-blood? - culture and people in South and Central America would be very interesting as well.
Rationale: The Brazilian United Americas thread got me thinking - is geography destiny? The fate of North America and Latin America have a lot to do with political, cultural, social, and religious factors, but harsh geography likely undeniably caused South America to be fragmented, Central America to be underdeveloped, while North America had the huge breadbasket of the Great Plains up to the Canadian Prairies. Not sure how Mexico fits in- it's got a lot of desert in the north and jungle in the south east, but the rest seem fine and it's blessed with natural resources.
Also, another major factor is the indigenous populations. There were far more aboriginal peoples from like Central Mexico southwards, while the natives in Anglo North America were relatively diffuse and less economically advanced. And given the different types of colonization patterns and so on and the different colonizing cultures involved, things could go very different.
A mestizo/metis - what's the English version, mixed-blood? - culture and people in South and Central America would be very interesting as well.