AH Challenge: Uber-Virginia

Your challenge, should you accept, is to have a modern-day independent Commonwealth of Virginia which is not part of any form of the US surviving until the present day, consisting of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaward, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and about 4 km of northern Georgia. It is allowed to have Virginia be a Dominion of the UK, however.
 
Your challenge, should you accept, is to have a modern-day independent Commonwealth of Virginia which is not part of any form of the US surviving until the present day, consisting of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaward, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and about 4 km of northern Georgia. It is allowed to have Virginia be a Dominion of the UK, however.

The Netherlands and France manage to kick the British out of New England. (they allied together against the Spanish, devided the southern Netherlands and have been allies since, maybe France is even protestant, I don't know) This is what is left of the British colony in North America.
 
That could work, though it gets sticky when you think about the different families given proprietary colonies; what happens to them?

Puritanism might be the answer. Have Cromwell support Virginia's invasion of Maryland. I don't know if this would work, but could a call be sent out for more Puritanical sects to emigrate to Virginia at this time? Strengthen their numbers and perhaps you make them powerful enough that Britain has to re-negotiate a peace with them after the interregnum, allowing them to change their borders.
 
How about an early rebellion that gets defeated and the King unifies the whole thing under one government. Maybe something to do with the English Civil War?

Think of that, maybe some significant supporters of Cromwell take over Virginia and conquer Maryland and Carolina.

If Virginia could somehow get larger numbers of colonists and colonize the entirety of its grant.

Or the early years of the USA end in failure with each state going its own way. War follows. Virginia stretches from Spanish Florida to Pennsylvania which becomes known as the Switzerland of America, a neutral ground and meeting place for diplomats from the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Federation of New England in their struggle for domination over the Northwest Territory.
 
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