AH Challenge, the More, the Merrier, 2 Billion Americans

I must point out that you didn't say 2 billion humans. :p

Some nutty green group in power grants citizenship to animals.

Or maybe more advanced computing and you have AI citizens.

Or good old ASB alien immigration.
 
It's very interesting:

The POD would be:

United States doesn't restricts Chinese immigration to the United States in 1882.

All families (white or black) in the colonial United States has 15 children.

United States doesn't abolish slave trade.

United States accepts more European and Asian settlers than in OTL.
 
I think an interesting point of contention in this thread would be what the effects of 2 billion Americans would be on the rest of the world. Its a good bet that carbon emissions would be quite a bit higher, but maybe not as high as many peope would think. As a larger population and higher population density would ead to great energy efficiency sandards across the economy. America's lead in scientific R&D would also be insermountable as a higher tax base would lead to a better funded and more secure space program. As well as other areas of scientific research.
 
This has got to be the biggest case of thread necromancy I have ever seen.

On topic, ... well ... I have absolutely no idea.
 
This has got to be the biggest case of thread necromancy I have ever seen.

On topic, ... well ... I have absolutely no idea.

A while ago, $agin bumped the last thread in the ASB forum with a nearly incomprehensible post.

Anyway, the OP didn't specify a time for the US to have 2e9 people.

So that loosens it up a bit.

EDIT: @Svartekaptenen: "Gay" is an English term referring to homosexuality. It does also mean "happy", but the former definition is far more common nowadays.
 
In Chris's "Thunder and Lightning" universe, the US ends up annexing Central America and western South America all the way down to the Southern Cone sometime during the 21st Century.

I don't recall how it actually happened, but such an uber-state could conceivably have 2 billion people eventually.
 

JJohnson

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Here's my thought - the US successfully annexes Canada in the Revolution, after the Quebec Act never passed in 1774. The US takes the entirety of North America over the next century. During the Mexican-American War, President Polk supported the Yucatan republic and Rio Grande republics, bringing them in as states, countering with two new Canadian states in the North. Bitter over losses, another Mex-American war in 1853 begins after the Gadsden Purchase, in which the US takes all of Mexico. The US now has a load of land, and the population can spread out across the continent. The railroads connect the US faster due to the spread of the US, and more cities spring up along those lines. Keep up the European immigration and you can speed up population growth, plus the former Mexicans.

James
 
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