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I believe the spectrum of possible futures for an independent CSA is very broad and encompasses almost every viewpoint expressed in this thread. Obviously some scenarios are more possible than others, but the probabilities of any particular future occurring depends upon the initial POD and the...

The problem is that the election of any Rebublican candidate for President, whether it happened to be Lincoln or Seward, or someone else, had, by late 1860, become the final straw for most of the deep South's power class, to justify seceding, with the position of the Republican leadership in...

While your POD is a major divergence from actual history, you have assumed that the path America follows after your POD is almost the same as that followed in actual history. As such, we need much more info such as, how did the ARW end, and what were the elements of the treaty with Britain...

Pretty much ASB in my mind. For a gay sub-culture to thrive within the more dominant society, that society must be affluent with a large leisure class and with a generally ambivalent attitude regarding procreation. Those societies are certainly thriving by the late 20th century, however, are...

However, the CSA's black population at the time of the Civil Rightas Amendment was a much smaller percentage than it had been in 1860, when slavery was perceived to be at its zenith. In fact, when cotton prices collapsed in the early 1870s because of the flood of cheaper cotton from India and...

Although, Mexico had no need in 1833 to "annex" Texas, since Texas was a part of Mexico already, and had been since Mexico gained its independence. Also, I do not believe that a "civil war" in 1833 would resemble either a European war of that era, nor the actual Civil War of 1861-1865...

By 1832, Virginia was a huge net exporter of slaves, mostly to areas of the deep south that were experiencing tremendous growth with the explosion of the cotton culture. In fact, as Virginia began to industrialize and saw the growth of cities and towns at the expense of the large plantations...

Kingdom of Comancheria Commonly Known as Comancheria Capital City: Quanah City (Located on OTL Brazos River, near OTL Waco) Population: 18,535,922 Currency: Comanche Dollar Major Languages: Shoshone-English; Spanish; English; Cajun-French Major Religions: ancient tribal beliefs - 31%; Roman...

Although its a great exercise in discussion, the original question is too subjective. For one man's heaven is another man's hell. I am sure that is why the ancients never tried to describe what they believed heaven to be. Too many people would read it and think,...well if that's heaven...

By October of 1859, when John Brown's raid took place, the pro slavery South and the free soil North were already very polarized. Secession and war was abated basically because of a President with southern sympathies who did not want to upset the status quo. The Republican party had gone from...

By the 1640s, were the Southern colonies (Virginia and Carolina) as large (population) as the New England colonies? Were their efforts more at turning a profit for their investors? What were their relationships with the Native Americans like?

I disagree. The Republic of Texas in 1845 looked very little like the ante-bellum slaveholding State of Texas in 1860. Although slavery grew as an institution during the 10 years that the ROT was in existence, only about 20% of the population of Texas were slaves in 1845. Only after statehood...

What? Are you saying that if the Earth farted, civilization as we know it would come to an end? Pray the Earth does not have gas.:D

Outside of the "cradles of civilization" areas of Mesopotamia and the Nile Delta, no other regions of the middle east or Africa could sustain a growing civilization in need of its most basic resource - food. One reason the civilizations moved westward with the Greek and Roman empires, is...

Someone...anyone, please make a map for us visual guys. Otherwise, you're putting together a great timeline. Very good storytelling. Now, how will an independent Louisiana affect the increasingly indepedent minded Mexicans throughout New Spain. Will it hasten their quest for independence...

Nice TL. I'm glad you were able to use some of my suggestions. Couple of questions though. What is the relationship between France and Britain, circa 1760? Has the 7 years war (French and Indian war) been butterflied away in your timeline? Also, with so much more French colonization...

The population in Texas was probably too small from 1836 until 1845 for the Texans to be able to successfully defend against a well organized and well armed military invasion by the Mexicans. As an aside, the estimated population in 1836 was less than 50 grand and by 1845 was only about 90,000...

For California, its settlement by Americans and it subsequent statehood is too closely intertwined with the Texas annexation and the Mexican war, and so if Texas remained inpedendent, there would be no Mexican war, no ceding of California to America, no settlement by Americans, and no statehood...

Considering that in 1860, the black population in the 11 seceding states was about 40%, the loyalist population of any of the seceding states could easily top 50%. However, without the military presence during Reconstruction, the black population would have been completely denied any rights to...

What was the question again? Oh yeah, what if the Americans and British avoided going to war in circa 1812. Actually, I decided to read this thread because the poster asked a very interesting What if, and I was hoping to read some interesting and intelligent responses, yet all I have read is...