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It is the year 1900. You and your family are in Europe and wish to emigrate to the new world for better opportunities. What signs tell you that going to North America will lead to better outcomes than South America?
I would say: 1. English is and looks like it will be the lingua Franca 2. Too many countries in South America => too much potential for conflict 3. Argentina is 10th largest economy in the world (gdp per capita), but USA is #1 4. More land in NA 5. Closer to Europe
Your options ranked in retrospect (imho and from what little history I know): 1. USA 2. Canada 3. Australia 4. New Zealand 5. Brazil/Argentina/Mexico 6. South Africa
Spanish colonies have been a revolutionary shitshow for 100 years at that point.
In 1900, not knowing what was coming, it would probably not be unreasonable to think Rhodesia or Kenya or German East Africa might be the best opportunity.
US Constitution has already been in existence for more than 100 yrs by then, with peaceful transfers of power, rule of law, etc.
This probably explained over 90% of America’s success— everything is built from it. Gets taken for granted sometimes imo
Letters from relatives that had already emigrated.
No better signal than that. Still true today.
Yep, US was richest country per capita by 1900 as you point out and as early as 1870 by some accounts. People think this was a post WW2 thing but that's a myth. I'd add that similar ecology is huge. Scandinavians in MN, Dutch near Great Lakes, etc. Later Vietnamese in Gulf Coast
Similar ecology means clannishness? Said another way, people from country X want to live in a US city with a large population from country X?
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