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There are probably a million overseas British nationals, plus British immigrants, and their children, and grandchildren, and wannabe Brits in India, Hong Kong, the Caribbean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific. There are going to be a lot of empty houses, factories, schools, etc. The infected will be...

I don't know. I just keep interpreting your statements as if you thought that the British had a snowball's chance in hell of 1. Invading the US and defeating the US army after 1862. 2. With Canadian! help, militia yet, not even some kind of Regulars who are trained to follow orders no matter...

To get back to the thread, I'd go with the Salton Sink and Baja California instead of Salt Lake City. Brigham Young catches a cold and dies or something. Northern California had too many gold miners, Mesa California had too many Hispanic ranchers, so the desert and irrigation would pretty much...

The civil war lasts a year longer, the slaves wind up as part of the army in Texas and settle down. The five states of Texas are the key voting block. Maybe Louisiana and the five states of Texas. Florida? It would be hard to win without that big a block, so figure the Republicans carry the...

Increased population density means we got the American crops somehow, with Asian crops coming sooner too. The population increase gives us canals. Probably not horse drawn railroads, though. Flamethrowers to make the Tercio less effective?

Okay, the Democrats take over in 1932, pass a draft law, then make armed forces and vets ineligible to vote along with any other tax recipients, so only women vote. Easy.

If you want Anglo states then you go with Canada, the West Indies, Newfoundland, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia. That's the lot, short of annexing Britain itself. Maybe more Pacific Islands?

There was a large British presence in Utah. Don't know why. Maybe the Mormons sent a very charismatic apostle or whatever to recruit in Britain.

In 1860 the Japanese had mostly given up the gun. See Noel Perrin's book on how the Japanese had put the gunpowder Jinni mostly back into the bottle. But they did have guns, gunsmiths, and imported weapons. Native sulfur, presumably native soil beds for nitrates, and charcoal, of course. The...

America wasn't going to fight over the Oregon territory because it had already won on the ground in WA and OR by colonizing it. BC and the fisheries, lumber, trapping, and mining possibilities wasn't nearly as interesting to America. Whaling was free for all at that time. Logistically America...

West Indies in 1917 Britain, France, Italy, Serbia, Rumania, Belgium, and Russia were in bad shape in 1917. The US had to enter the war to bail them out. If they had done better we could have supported them financially and they could have beaten Germany by themselves. So instead of sending an...

Indentured adults were forbidden by the Articles and then the Constitution, but native children could still be indentured till 21. What if there was a loophole where you could indenture children till they were 21, or reached a certain development stage or height or weight? 1. Would the North...

California is pretty much an economically self sufficient area. It would be a good state. Say, we do ethnic cleansing by realator and move people in over a few years? I don't think it's necessary, though. Sure, in 1865 it was sensible. Not now. Younger people don't really care, whatever us old...

Oops, I thought you meant a British attack of the US! No wonder we were talking at cross purposes. If the US invaded Canada before the British invaded the US or attacked American merchant shipping, the result would be a civil war in America instantly. William Jennings Bryan would be marching...

Well, since the CSA survived, obviously the USA doesn't consider them enemies. Must have been one of those "Wayward sisters depart in peace" timelines. How did the Mormons get Nevada? That was heavily settled (for the times) already in 1860, and high in roistering miners. No Mormons wanted to...

Remember, at the time of Dunkirk One third of the BEF was still in France after Dunkirk and was evacuated later. Essentially all the British tanks were still in Britain. They still hadn't got around to sending them to France. Let alone the Canadian armored division that would have come in so...

MrP You just don't seem to understand logistics. I know that Canada is big. That is irrelavant. What is relavant is population to border ratio. If the ratio is too low, like, say, in Canada, there are no lines. The US troops don't have to fight the Canadians, even if for some reason the...

Deporting all the southerners to Texas and Florida was possible...but I don't think it would have been done. Ditto treating all the southerners the way they treated the blacks would also have been possible, but I don't think it would have been done. Basically, northerners just weren't as mean...

You know, if I was Germany and I wanted to invade somewhere, Argentina, Uruguay, Parguay, and Chile makes more sense. Decent weather, lots of minerals, pretty women...

I was not aware that Britain had an army in meaningfull terms in 1861. I mean a mass army of several hundred divisions, like America had. I think the British army then might have had perhaps a hundred thousand all found, including native troops. Maybe. Again, the British navy was the most...