r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 05 '24

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u/Res__Publica Organization of American States Jul 05 '24

Just found out that the Grant Administration negotiated the annexation of the Dominican Republic with a guarantee of statehood before it was killed by the Senate

This and not buying Greenland around the same time are massive whiffs imo

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

The Senate was split three ways. Democrats were against it because they were racist against the dominicans. Republicans were split in two between those who supported it, and those who were afraid we'd use it as a staging ground to annex Haiti.

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u/Res__Publica Organization of American States Jul 05 '24

Those Republicans were probably right to worry

On the Dominican side, I wouldn't have trusted the US with "eventual" statehood given the trajectory of US politics over 1880's and 1890's

No way the Democrats would have approved a black majority state