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Just doing a bit of back-of-the-napkin math, using the parameters you've given us, the Electoral college looks like this: Douglas - 95 Lincoln - 84 Bell - 63 Breckenridge - 20 First thing to keep in mind is that IOTL Lincoln only beat Douglas in the popular vote by a margin of 300,000 votes...

I think for a timeline like this to work, an earlier POD would work better. The problem with San Jacinto is that if everything else remains unchanged, the Mexicans have a precarious supply situation. They are dependant on sea lanes for their supplies, but by San Jacinto, the nascent Texas Navy...

This gets kicked around every few months. One thing folks tend to forget about was that Texas was a long way from Mexico City and it was, before Anglo-European immigration, very sparsely populated. When Santa Anna arrived at San Antonio on February 23, 1836, he was operating at the end of a very...

IIRC, what Foxworthy said is that being a redneck is a "glorious lack of sophistication." But you're point is valid. I know plenty of people with no class of all races and ethnicities and cultures.

I agree with what others have said, you need to find a reason for Texas to remain that works very heavily against the deep South interests in play in 1860. One of the more interesting things to look at is an 1860 census from Texas. One of the fields that people provided information on was their...

Thanks for the link. Best of luck.

Interesting topic. Over the years, broadly speaking, I've identified two types of alternative history. The first type is where alternate history is the backdrop of the story, like the Yiddish Policeman's Union. I'd argue that Man in the High Castle fits this as well. I'd also put Fatherland...

I saw that when I was researching my own timeline on an Independent Texas. I'm not convinced he didn't rent the slaves, which wasn't uncommon at that time. When I looked him up in the 1820 and 1830 US census, I don't believe his household held slaves at either point.

I don't think it's possible to create something entirely decentralized. Even most Protestant denominations tend towards some form of central authority; after all, nature abhors a vacuum. But, if one were to look at the early church, tradition says that from the very beginning of the church...

Subscribed. I'm not sure I can come close to offering the quality of feedback you provided in my timeline, but I'll definitely follow your effort.

My sixth and final book in the Lone Star Reloaded series was released on Amazon today. Here's the blurb: Stranded in the past in 1836, Will Travers woke up in the body of William Barret Travis, commander of the doomed Alamo command, and did what any self-respecting Texan would do when handed...

Seems an interesting start. Curious to see where you take it next.

By 1865, 300,000 people in northern England were out of work due to the lack of Indian and Egyptian cotton vs. Southern cotton production. Source Consumer goods are far easier to target for boycott than industrial goods. Cotton was one of the lifebloods of the industrial revolution and...

Of special interest is the Mexican population in the 1840s in California. It was nearly as sparsely populated as Texas before the Anglo-American immigration of Texas. I've seen one source that put Mexican population around 3000 and about 10000 natives. Other sources put the total of the two at...

As I mentioned, for the republic of texas to remain independent, the earlier the POD the greater the odds. I'd probably remove Sam Houston and replace him with someone else. Keep Stephen F. Austin alive or have David Crockett miss his destiny at the Alamo and you'd certainly have a different...

It depends on which party is in control of the presidency and Congress. The Whigs were not fans of annexation for the most part. Also, men like Mirabeau Lamar had fantasies of a Southwest empire (we'll call it the Walker syndrome). Also, the farther away you get from the POD, the more...

Check out my earlier response vis a vis this very issue. Context matters. The Republic of Yucatan was subsumed back into Mexico proper due to their own internal problems with the Caste War. The issues with Yucatan had more to do with how Spanish speaking Mexicans treated the indigenous Mayans...

Why does Texas remain independent? That's the likely point of divergence. Once this is determined, you can start to extrapolate the next steps. Sam Houston was a strong proponent of annexation, as were the many Southern Democrats who rushed into the Texas Republic to claim free and near-free...

Saul of Tarsus, aka St. Paul, was one of the key catalysts in Christianity being seen both internally and externally distinct from Judaism. Butterfly away his conversion/Damascus Road experience and you'd get an entirely different world. If one adds in Luke and Acts, most of the New Testament...

This is so true. Paradox makes some of the most moddable games available. I'd be surprised if there's not a mod on the Steam store that wouldn't simulate some aspect of the final solution in Hearts of Iron. Paradox makes their games to be playable by the widest possible audience (and admittedly...