Ethnic-based separatist movements which could have realistically succeeded had history went differently?

[WolfBear]

Which ethnic-based separatist movements which could have realistically succeeded had history went differently? For instance, here is one example:

Had Kazakhstan been taken over by an ultranationalist government after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia could have supported separatists in northern Kazakhstan, with or without the hope of eventually annexing northern Kazakhstan into Russia.

Anyway, which additional realistic examples of this can you think of?

 

[WolfBear]

Had the Kenyan Somalis won the Shifta War, they could have been allowed to secede and join Somalia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifta_War

 

[Doomsought]

Sending the Slaves back to Africa was already a partial success due to the efforts that the American Colonial society put into creating Liberia. If they were given official support following the civil war there might have been enough Americo-Liberians to prevent Liberia's collapse in the 1980s.

 

[WolfBear]

Sending the Slaves back to Africa was already a partial success due to the efforts that the American Colonial society put into creating Liberia. If they were given official support following the civil war there might have been enough Americo-Liberians to prevent Liberia's collapse in the 1980s.

Marcus Garvey actually did advocate the mass migration of New World blacks "back" to Sub-Saharan Africa, if I recall correctly. But of course white people in the New World refused to support his project.

Some black Americans nowadays are actually moving to Ghana in order to escape things such as "systemic racism" here in the US:

Why some Black Americans are leaving the U.S. to reclaim their "destiny" in Ghana

Sonjiah Davis had a good life in Washington D.C., but she "never felt safe." Like many others, she's discovered that "home is not a place. It's how you feel where you are."

www.cbsnews.com

It's an extremely small fraction of the total US population, of course, but still interesting and notable. I admire them for actually being willing to live in a country that is not dominated by whites (or Asians, or Jews).

 

[Doomsought]

Marcus Garvey actually did advocate the mass migration of New World blacks "back" to Sub-Saharan Africa, if I recall correctly. But of course white people in the New World refused to support his project.

This isn't a new concept; the idea to deal with the slavery problem (and problems descended from it) by sending blacks back to Africa has existed for most of the United States history, and has been supported more by blacks or whites during various points in time. The American Colonial Society was simply the most successful attempt, they sent 18000 freed or born free blacks to Africa, founding what was until the 1980s one of the most modern nations on the continent.

 

[WolfBear]

This isn't a new concept; the idea to deal with the slavery problem (and problems descended from it) by sending blacks back to Africa has existed for most of the United States history, and has been supported more by blacks or whites during various points in time. The American Colonial Society was simply the most successful attempt, they sent 18000 freed or born free blacks to Africa, founding what was until the 1980s one of the most modern nations on the continent.

Not as modern as South Africa, most likely, but still, point then.

 

[Cherico]

Quebec came damned close to independence