Anaxagoras
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If the Union loses the Civil War, would the United States move its capital from Washington City to some other place?
If the Union loses the Civil War, would the United States move its capital from Washington City to some other place?
Have to define "lose" since when and how pretty much define the boundaries.
Yeah, it depends on whether or not the border states go over to the C.S. side. Or if the U.S. loses control of D.C.
Have to define "lose" since when and how pretty much define the boundaries.
Facts are fine (I actually like the handy dandy chart), but it's the "Well the South didn't win OTL so they obviously can't win no matter what" that gets me.TFSmith and civil war facts!
Less about facts and more stiffling any discussion that doesn't match his view.TFSmith and civil war facts!
Assume that the war ends with the border between the CSA and the USA being the Potomac River.
The POD isn't especially important and can be any number of different things, so please be a gentleman and don't derail the thread.
Facts are fine (I actually like the handy dandy chart), but it's the "Well the South didn't win OTL so they obviously can't win no matter what" that gets me.
Less about facts and more stiffling any discussion that doesn't match his view.
You can do what literally everyone else does, headcanon one of the dozens of PODs on the website. That said, if it's not a Confederate defeat you won't accept them no matter what, so this is a pointless comment.Rather a pointless question if you don't want to base it on "something" factual....
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Because of course the Northern folk are emotionless robots, who don't mind watching their sons die by the thousands and won't force the government to stop if the conflict seems to be going nowhere (in one of the dozens of PODs on the site that you simply won't accept because the North loses)Since we have yet to see an explanation of the glorious confederate victory that passed the laugh test, feel free.
Demographic and economic wealth of 3-1 odds or more in the 1860s in the United States is only going to end one way.
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Because of course the Northern folk are emotionless robots, who don't mind watching their sons die by the thousands and won't force the government to stop if the conflict seems to be going nowhere (in one of the dozens of PODs on the site that you simply won't accept because the North loses)
I think you're missing the little fact this is ALTERNATE HISTORY. You know, things happening different from OTL? In an alternate history the South could, shock gasp, do better than OTL and wear down the Northern will.Considering the rebels were constantly losing their claimed territory from 1861 onwards, that seems unlikely, does it not?
How many American wars in the Nineteenth Century were ended by domestic political opposition, again?
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I think you're missing the little fact this is ALTERNATE HISTORY. You know, things happening different from OTL? In an alternate history the South could, shock gasp, do better than OTL and wear down the Northern will.
But enough, this is just derailing the thread. Back to Anaxagoras's question, no I don't think they'd move the capital. It might look like weakness if they did. But, as some people have said and as one of the few things people agree Turtledove did good, there would be a "backup" capital somewhere else for times of war.