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It isn't simply enough to have a unionist governor. The legislature also needs to have enough unionists in it to keep the secessionists from pulling a coup, or simply overriding a veto. My point is that if the OP is looking for ways to create a TL where Virginia stays in the Union, more...

Two countries that get along? Earlier POD is better for the scenario. Have the constitution fail to be ratified. Flowing from the failure to ratify, the New England states band together and pass their own constitution, which the rest of the northern states eventually join. Virginia, Maryland...

I want to second this. Sam Houston, out in Texas, where the number of slaves as a percentage of population was lower than it was in Virginia, was staunchly pro-Union. He fought the secessionists all the way to where they essentially staged a coup and removed him from office. Obviously, this is...

I would say that anything over a novella length TL (We'll call that anything longer than 40K words is long, after all, you're still talking a few hours of solid reading time to consume a TL of even 40K words.) is worth of the designation of a big TL. Stories like "Out of the Azure Main" over in...

This is important when planning out your TL. I favor very little foreshadowing in my TL, because it gives me flexibility to consider where I want the narrative to go as I work out my outlines. That, and I simply don't believe in tipping my hand too early in the narrative. The "I'm changing my...

I'm doing that now on my Forget the Alamo story. I'm catching quite a few of them, but the truth of the matter is that I'm too familiar with my story to catch all of the important errors, from typos, to passive verbs, to weak modifiers and the like. Oh, I've caught all (or nearly) the they're...

Not to derail the OPs topic about the dearth of long TLs on this sub-forum, but editing a self-published book can run anywhere from $200-$1000 US. A cool cover, anywhere from $100 to $500.

I've read tons of alt history on Amazon, some of it pretty good, and some of it... not so much. I'm in the process of taking my narrative timeline through the process of self publishing. The 2nd draft is over here. My problem with posting my TL in the Pre-1900 is that the POD required the...

I've looked at Sea Lion Press' output and they've culled some good strong narrative stories from some of the writers on these boards, but they're a little too narrowly focused in what they produce, IMO.

You realize that, if Santa Anna had defeated Sam Houston at San Jacinto, there'd be fanboys on these forums claiming that the odds of a ragtag army kicking ass against the Napoleon of the West would, as you said, "has about the same probability of drawing an inside royal flush in five card...

That's one of my more favorite tropes on CSA survives TLs. Of course, I'm a Texas boy, so go figure. :biggrin:

All true. Interesting exceptions were towns like New Orleans (hell, the entire state of Louisiana was a bit of an exception to that rule), Houston/Galveston and Mobile. Texas was around 10% foreign born in 1860. But again, exceptions rather than the rule.

1) please provide your source. I would like to review it. I found some general numbers, but what little I have found doesn't match your statement. 2) What's up with absolutes? Why are you fixated on "it can only be this way"? Your position is based upon this is what he did in OTL. That's...

1) exactly how much? A quick look shows that the CSA sold a lot of cotton bonds to folks in Britain and France. I believe those notes were sold with explicit instructions that said cotton must be picked up by the bond holders in Confederate ports. Now, in the unlikely event of a CSA victory...

I trust that you're not going to go all TFSmith on me (look him up, it's illustrative). Nearly all of the debt was owed domestically. Take a look at the cost to the UK at the end of the Napoleonic war. A majority of their budget was debt repayment for the next couple of generations. My point...

We'll have to agree to disagree. I've posted articles that shows a reasoned argument, wrapped around a growing middle class. What basis do you make for your position?

For the sake of the argument, I'm going to assume that a surviving CSA includes what we normally think of as the CSA including Oklahoma. There are actually some pretty good resources that are worth looking at regarding what constitutes the South's economy. We could talk about Cotton, and it...

My earlier post was getting a bit long and I wanted to address specifically if Mexico had actually been able to expel the Texians from Texas. There was one group heretofore that Mexico had never been able to defeat. The Comanche. These warriors of the plains were a key reason why in 1836 that...

Research on the issue isn't as deep as one might like, but there's a theory floating around that Houston was aware that General Gaines, stationed in western Louisiana with around 2000 troops had secret orders to engage Santa Anna's army if they crossed the Trinity river. That never happened, so...