Board Thread:Roleplay Ideas/@comment-26535281-20160716141827/@comment-26347028-20160716142532

This requires a few assumptions.

1. Natural selection doesn't work that way. Sure, if there wasn't enough medicine there'd be increased skin cancer in more lighter skinned people, but even now that doesn't stop South Africa having people of a lighter skin tone, does it?

2. People aren't mad. They wouldn't call themselves "High Men" in the first place, let alone alienate everyone else. The lessons were learned with America, and even then America was one of the many colonies - each of which remained staunch allies of the British Empire after becoming independent peacefully (Australia, Canada, etc.)

3. Earth itself would be massively overpopulated, and so most of the population would probably go. While a great idea in theory, there'd be nowhere to house such large numbers and the colonies would see population crashes. It would also be like the Thirteen Colonies, in that there isn't a massive amount of point in them beyond more resources. They'd expand, but slowly. And they'd stay fairly loyal to their founders even then.

Basically, unless the people ruling Earth are absolute morons, then not even one of them would revolt. If they were, a few would. But not all. And even then, they wouldn't be so different as you make out.

Now, I would suggest either labelling this as "fantasy" and not "future", because this really isn't the future, or make some other special circumstance. But don't just claim that it's plausible.