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  1. In a Northern Secession TL, how would this USA develop?

    First of all, let's say the US ends ups divided like something similar to this: (A map in the immediate aftermath of the Norther Secession Crisis resolution around the 1860's) Let's say war doesn't break out, but the Federal Republic and the United States go their separate ways. So, how would...

  2. A more industrialized American South?

    With a POD after 1800, how can large industrial complexes like the Tredegar Iron Works become a more common sight in the south of the United States? IIRC there was a plan to establish a similar (if smaller) factory in Birmingham, Alabama, but AFAIK the project never went ahead. How would a South...

  3. WI: A Large Hurricane strikes the South before Civil War

    The POD: in the 1860 Atlantic hurricane season, the first hurricane of the season, IOTL cat 4, is much larger, instead being h a cat 5 on the scale of Katrina. You obviously know what's going to happen: how would this affect the resources of the southern states, and how much if at all the...
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