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What do you think this America would look like?

Specifically

1. What impact do you think this would have on the timing/outcome of the civil war? Would the more equal balance of north/south population (most immigrants went to the north) delay or even prevent the war? On the other hand, the north would probably be less politically fractured, given that no immigration butterflies away the Know-Nothing movement.

2. What would America be like today? Obviously, smaller and poorer overall, but would the average standard of living be the same? Similarity of cultures means that there would be less social strife, but the smaller population means that we would be unlikely to become the dominant superpower.
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