text: North American is not Protestant, for one. Canada, North America, is primarily a Catholic, secular country, majority-wise. Protestantism has always been a minority there. Today, less than 27% of Canada is Protestant. (Catholics are 38%, with non affiliates and non-Christians fleshing out the religious and non-religious categories left).
  And two, maybe in the past the US's majority Protestant population outperformed L. America (especially after the Monroe Doctrine, which crippled many of the new Latin American republics, and the Mexican War of American "imperial conquest," which cut Mexico in half so that white racists could expand slavery to the Pacific), but today that is not so. The US is only 46% Protestant, and countries like Chile and Argentina are doing quite well as they watch the "remnants" of  Protestant America come to terms with their imperial, racist past - the most obvious example being the EC's decision to remove stained glass windows of Robert E. Lee from their churches.