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Perhaps, though, should OTL New Brunswick be calved off into a separate state, it may take the name "Acadia" anyway. I doubt that the US would (despite Virginia, Maryland, Georgia and the Carolinas) continue naming states after the British crown, and if it should become a state, I can't think...

You kept the Whalers in place. As far as I'm concerned, you can do no wrong :).

I find that this "US-Soviet" Cold War is too ridiculous to even consider. With their economy, sure, the United States could be a world super-power, if they could ever get their noses out of the Western Hemisphere long enough to actually become a deciding factor in world politics. And I find...

The US also tended to do this more in nations that were in their backyard, like Mexico, Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Panama, etc. before World War II. I can't find very many instances of the US being in South America before the war, but I can find multiple instances in each...

Vermont also has a pretty stubborn independent streak. They were an independent state during the American Revolution, and has historically been a fairly independent state in its politics. Connecticut...well, if we were to be a part of a hypothetical independent New England, we would...

It all comes down to strategic importance. Baltimore in the early 1800s was one of the largest US cities and one of its busiest ports (fourth behind Boston, Philadelphia and NYC in 1790; third behind only Philly and NYC in 1800, 1810, and 1820, and second behind NYC in 1830, 1840 and 1850; it...

Well, an immediate one I can think of is in sports; Shea Stadium, home of the OTL New York Jets and Mets would be in Brooklyn, not New York, so you might have the Brooklyn Jets joining the AFL/NFL, and the Brooklyn Mets coming back to win the fans of the departed Dodgers. And to kill two...

I recall from my limited study of the British Empire in the 20th century that the British were looking at providing dominion status for India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa after the failure to recognize its value with Canada; the problem was progress moved too slowly in India (with a...

Yeah, I just noticed that. The board didn't seem to be working right for me last night.

All you'd need to do is control strategic chokepoints. Remember the Mississippi watershed covers most of the trans-Appalachian Confederacy. Even with roads and rails, the most efficient way for the Confederacy would be to ship things would be via river. As I recall, the four places the Union...

They did, and it was because they were jealously guarding their Canadian colonies against the US gaining strength to the South. Indeed, the idea of Manifest Destiny did not die simply because the US reached the Pacific; the 1861 Spanish-American war showed this, where the US captured Santo...

Answering your points: 1) It all depends on what states secede, naturally. Remember that, even to this day, people identify more with what state they live in than the notion of being "American", and would tend to be more loyal to the states they came from. Not even military service has...

Well, I would know a few things for certain, if this war were to ever happen. The Southern states would have a preponderance of the best military leaders, the men that cut their teeth against Mexico; we saw what men like Robert Lee, Thomas Jackson and Jeb Stuart did against the British in the...

Well, aside from 45+40+15 being 110, it'd be interesting :). And Weicker wasn't a Senator; he was Governor.

Christmas? We don't have the time to celebrate for every prophet. Imagine if we wanted to have a holiday for Amos, Habakkuk, and Malachi too! We don't even bother for important people like Moses and Elijah! Besides, it conflicts with Chanukkah, which is a much more valuable holiday to...

This, I suppose, is the major problem with the "America first, last, and only" perspective of the series. We don't know why Britain reacted as they did, and can only speculate. I imagine it's probably a dictated peace agreement like Brest-Litovsk, designed to get the British out of the war...

Did you miss it when I said before? It's a lot of land, several thousand miles away, that Britain HAS to defend. The US, in 1917, possesses pretty much everything worth defending. Having to spend the time and effort, as far as the government might be concerned, diverted resources that could...

My guesses as to why: 1) Possession rules; the US by the end of the Great War held (as far as I recall, without wanting to find the references in the books) the major cities (Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, etc.) and most of the population of Canada. What Britain had left was the vast...

You'd need a POD in the 1870s. At first, the most popular ruleset of football was "soccer", and in 1873, Columbia, Yale, Princeton and Rutgers agreed to play only by Association rules. Harvard also played football, but they played the "Boston game", more closely tied to rugby. After playing...

Not having to send battleships and landing craft up the Verrazano Narrows or down the East River, for one. I could see the landings starting in Long Island and New Jersey, but any invader is going to have to go borough to borough to capture the city, and you can bet those interconnecting...