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    Whats your favorite kind of Texas?

    Texas A Texas divided into five states: Dallas...Dallas East Texas...Ft Worth North Houston...SE Texas Austin,,,Central Texas Tejas...Mexican Border
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    Mild Obscure POD: what minor pods can you think of?

    A few/// Harold Godwinson never ship wrecked in Normandy. Aknation dies in childhood. The White Ship arrives safely. Martin Luther executed. James II never remarries. Edward V escapes the Tower. Washington spends post Yorktown period taking land south of St Larance. Jefferson...
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    ACW: Virginia stays together, Texas splits

    Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina voted to leave the Union after the Virginia vote. If Virginia stays there is a good chance that they would too. That makes the CSA only the deep south with a much larger, and more complicated, neutral zone. The war might have been blockaid only until...
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    AHC/WI: Barack Obama IS Born in Kenya

    If he had been foreign born, he would have known it and never run for POTUS in the first place. Hilary Clinton would be President right now having beaten McCain as badly as did Obama. Her economic policy would have been more POTUS dtriven than the Congress driven policies of Obama so her...
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    Trade effect on WWI w/true neutral USA

    None of the warring partiew would have wanted to sell land but parting with non strategic assets vs starvation is not a difficult choice. The US would have been interested in: French Islands off Canada French Islands in Caribbean French Islands in Eastern Pacific German Samoa Artic...
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    Early and decisive Entente victory?

    Russians win early battles in east even more decisively. Kaiser reads tea leaves and seeks peace to save his throne.
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    What if Mexico had won the Mexican American war instead of the United States

    This war was going to last until the US won. Mexican victories could have delayed the outcome but not changed it. Could Mexican victories softened the peace? Maybe, but to do so the victories would have to be in California. Winning on Mexican soil does not change the US occupation of...
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    The rational Confederate leader--when should he surrender?

    The fall of Atlanta reelected Lincoln and sealed the South's fate. I have long felt that either the Richmond government or the individual states should have opened discussions at that point with a goal of compensated emancipation, immediate withdrawal of Union troops, and immediate reentry...
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    Second Mexican-American War?

    By 1915 the US was into straight lines so draw a line across Mexico just south of the mouth of the Rio Grande. It might keep the US out of WW1 all together. If intergration of these gains looked successful in the 1930's other areas might be added as the US exercised "Gunboat Diplomacy" in...
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