British settlers adopted boer racial dispositions once moving beyond the Cape

Evidence

In British Natal and the boer republics, by contrast, African presence was more palpably felt as threatening, conjuring insecurities regarding not only land and labor but likewise and perhaps more pressingly of physical and cultural degeneration. Indigenous groups vacillated between openness to the boers or the British, depending on who would extend them greater respect, resources, or simply peaceful coexistence, and outright hostility. Indigenous resistance was inevitably folded into the pre-existing set of colonizing dispositions regarding race, re-enforcing the dominant sense of primitivity and naturalized hostility. Once the British left the southwestern security of Cape control over political economy for the less settled northeast, their ruling disposition came quickly to emulate that of the boers. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1434

Categorization

• XREF: The reader’s interest in how minority-perception demographic ratios drive racial policy echoes this; connects to Milgrom’s work on how group size shapes institutions.