AH Challenge:ACW Role Reversal

Rocano

Banned
With a POD before 1860 Make the Northern United States Rural and Agriculutre dependent and the South Urban and Industrial.

Very ASBish i know.
 
Alternatively make the South overwhelmingly white with its agriculture based partly on free employed Labour but substantially on small farms.

Have the North use a massive amount of slaves in its industries.
 
Surely this rests on European immigration.

Just have the North be anti-immigration and the South pro-immigration and not only will the south transform from agricultural to industrial but it will also have the majority of the population living there as well as the abolitionists.
 

Kaptin Kurk

Banned
Surely this rests on European immigration.

Just have the North be anti-immigration and the South pro-immigration and not only will the south transform from agricultural to industrial but it will also have the majority of the population living there as well as the abolitionists.


Perhaps, but breaking the power of the South's Landed Aristocracy isn't going to be pretty, unless you somehow prevent them from rising in the first place....

Maybe have the troubles in the British Isles become greater, pushing more colonist to the Americas....while the Indians and the Appalachians are still an effective barrier to the west.

Or have the French to better in the New World, forcing the population of the Northern Colonies to flee south or be under the Papist's evil domination....

Could you see a New France Spaning from Canada down to Pennsylvania....?
 
the problem is that the North (at least the farther north) isn't very suitable for agricultures. the summers are hot (100s) and the winters are freezing (-10), and the harvest season is shorter than in the south. farming just wouldn't be profitable up here. but if somehow it actually DID happen, this would probably be an uber-south victory TL because the north would have no strength at all (think south without the agriculture) and the south would have the industry.
 
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