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Well now that will create a few butterflies. In OTL the hope of getting Florida and possibly Texas was key in driving southern support for the War of 1812. The US had its eye on Florida in OTL so much so that an invasion was planned for early 1813 but was voted down by Congress. Americans had...

Interesting thought. But what would the impetus be for America to want Texas in 1812 so much that it would got to war with Spain. Not sure that there was any concept of manifest destiny at that time, nor any such thing as the Monroe Doctrine. In 1812 Texas, you had a few thousand (4-5...

Glen - you have put together a very enjoyable TL, and was happy to see you quickly get through with the war/rebellion. From a personal preference, I generally skip over TLs that get into the minutae of battles and army movements, etc. (while I don't bregrudge those folks that are into that sort...

Someone will have to post this too the map. I skipped class that day. Jeffersonia Capitol: San Antonio de Bexar Largest City: San Antonio Population: 11,236,725 Admission Into Union: December 28, 1857 (33rd) Governor: Frederico Mueller Religion: Protestant Christian (46%), Roman Catholic...

While much is made in history books about German immigration to Texas during the antebellum period, it was surprisingly limited. According to the 1860 census, Texas had an overall population of 604,000, having rapidly grown during the 1850s by almost 400k. However, the number of residents who...

Glen, I would love to see some specific demographic and other statistical information regarding the BSA at this crucial time in its history. While you have given us some snipets of info, (e.g. - there is a higher percentage of slaves in the BSA than in OTL's South), I would be very interested...

Thanks for the congrats. baby boy is 8 lbs 9 oz and 20 1/2 inches. (Sorry as an American, I have no idea how that translates into metrics, for any readers who hale from the other 90% of the world):rolleyes: Yes, and now you have reached the episodes that I have been waiting for, I am glad to...

Jeez...I go away for a couple of weeks while my wife and I have a baby, and when I come back, 8 full pages of posts with many interesting arguments and points of view. Glen you have put together the best timeline I have seen in the last 6+ months. Keep up the good work.

I agree that TTL will have created even more separate and distinct cultures of people than what occurred in OTL. But in the United States of TTL, an entire generation has come of age since slavery was abolished throughout the country. Add to that the general animosity and competition that...

Is your description of the settlement of Spanish/Mexican Texas, purposely vague? It seems you have set up an independent Texas for a huge fall when free soilers and slaveowners end up plunging the Rupublic into civil war. What is interesting though, is that if such a civil war were to occur in...

Well if the average life span was doubled and if that increase saw a corresponding increase in the number childbearing years that women have, we could see a world population boom like nothing that has ever been experienced. Imagine a world with 300 to 400 million people - 5 times larger than...

Wow. I go away for a day or so, and come back to see how much meat you have given us to devour. Glen, I am a big fan. I really like how you intertwined the Second Great Awakening and the Deist Movement in your history. The evolution of Deist thought into a full blown evangelistic...

Perhaps there needs to be a "Vector Award" given to the clueless non-troll poster who manages to get himself banned the quickest.

Well you were kind enough to insult just about everyone on AH.com. Bravo

Glen, I am really enjoying your TL. I really like the way you pack loads of information into a relatively short update. It makes it easier for those of us with little extra time, to keep up with your prose. Some interesting things that I note from reading your TL, is the additional...

Keeping his mouth shut in this one instance, probably doesn't do anything to alter Lincoln's future. As long as you have the same man with the same beliefs and personality, he would have managed to make his beliefs known in a thousand other ways. He could have spoken up in another instance, etc.

While indentured servitude was widely used as a means for plantation owners to acquire the needed labor to run their plantations, slavery ended up supplanting it because the slave labor was more dependable (by this I mean the plantation owner could control labor shortages much easier by quickly...

Assuming for the sake of argument that a POD during the ACW caused a chain of events that lead to the CSA winning the war, assuring its independence and allowing it to maintain slavery, there would not have been a move to abolish slavery any time in the first decades following the war...

Thanks for all the replies. Although my POD was purposely vague, I was envisioning a fully "united" states with no southern secession, and thus no civil war. Of course, I don't believe the status quo could have been maintained much longer and so some type of great compromise would have to have...

Always seems to be much discussion regarding the South/Confederacy if either a civil war is averted or won by the CSA, but not nearly as much speculation of how the Northern states would have developed in the 1860s-1900, had something happened in the years leading up to 1861 that allowed the...