Instead, they did nothing and ended up losing it all.Lessons: watch the demographic trends, realize when you're overextended and consolidate
As late as the 60s, white South Africans could have predicted the inevitable and divided SA into white and black countries.
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@A_Linder_5 continuing was not possible indefinitely without doing something about the population changes. White % had to increase
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@A_Linder_5 Things can be done about demographics, but SA didn't do anything to increase white % -
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@A_Linder_5 ok, sure. Partition is one route to that. The goal has to be the creation of areas where one's group has a solid majority -
@A_Linder_5 SA whites could have gone that direction but didn't. They did nothing to correct their demographic problem -
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@A_Linder_5 The option more likely to get enough support would have been to physically remove them to some portion of the country and then -
@A_Linder_5 wall it off.
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@A_Linder_5 Everyone knew by then that slaughter *would not* go over. -
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@A_Linder_5 I'm trying to take a realistic view of what people at the time could actually have done given the context
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