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one thing i've more or less decided on recently for Anglo-American Rivalry pertains to the American Civil War. while the results of the war are largely the same as IOTL (though perhaps ending sooner and including Lincoln not being assassinated, though that's up in the air), i've decided two things definitively (three things due to the effects of the first):
Virginia does not join the Confederacy (even if some groups in the state are sympathetic to their cause) and as a result does not split into Virginia and West Virginia
as a result, the Confederate capital does not move to Richmond and stays at Montgomery (or could potentially move to a different location)
instead of Virginia, Texas splits into two states, Confederate Texas and Unionist "West Texas" (it'll probably have a different name in the final version, but this will be the working name)
now i just need to figure out how, in the grand scheme of things, the states undergo these changes from OTL. the POD leading to this can be at any time following the formation of the United States.
one thought that occurred to me concerning the Texas split is that, possibly, the state is a little more populated by the outbreak of the war and more of them are pro-Union than pro-secession. as a result, when the secession vote comes to the state, it votes (just barely) to stay in the Union, but the eastern part (which would be the pro-slavery/pro-secession part of the state ITTL) votes to break off and join the CSA in the same way that West Virginia broke off to stay in the Union. at the end of it all, Unionist "West Texas" and former-CSA "East Texas" are back in the union as two separate states, with West Texas perhaps identifying more as part of the Southwest while East Texas identifies more with the Deep South