Challenge: American Cuba (or Puerto Rico)

From: Daniel Titley (d.titley@bigfoot.com)
Subject: Challange: American Cuba


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Date: 2004-01-26 05:26:05 PST



Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make Cuba a state
of the USA by 1960.

Remember, has to be a State (with its own star on the flag, two
senitors and several congressmen in Washington, and full US
citizenship for all it's people) not just a protectorate or a
dependant teritory or anything like that.


PS- or give Puerto Rico the same treatment -MEJ
 
This is easy. Spain agrees to sell it to the US in the 1850s; the Southern strategy at the time was, IIRC, to carve three states out of Cuba. Assuming the Civil War doesn't go any differently, I'd bet that the new Cuban states would be accepted by around the end of Reconstruction.
 
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