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"Population density"is a nice way to put it but hides fact that the local population was exterminated in the british colonies, and not in the spanish ones. That
by mrtree 10y ago
"Population density"is a nice way to put it but hides fact that the local population was exterminated in the british colonies, and not in the spanish ones. That's why there is so few people of aboriginal descent in the US and not in Latin America.
- w1ntermute 10y agoPopulation density isn't "a nice way to put it", it's data from before colonization began. Regardless of what happened afterwards, the starting conditions were very different in what is now the US and Mexico.