AHC:American settler republics?

Buenos Aires and New Orleans share in common their ability to choke off commerce upriver. It's why the US wanted NO. It's why Buenos Aires was able to play top dog (by a wide margin) in Argentina. Don't know if that qualifies as 'economic' or military force.

To tie it in with the Boers, they, too, lacked easy access to the sea. Britain worked very hard to keep it that way, for good reason.
 
How about, scuttle USA early on?
OTL, US Constitution entered into force with ratification by 9 States out of 13... on 21st of June, 1788.
The 4 last were Rhode Island, North Carolina... and Virginia and New York.

OTL, Virginia ratified on 25th of June, 1788, with votes 89-79, and New York on 26th of July, votes 30-27.

Shift a few votes... and Constitution is formally binding on Nine States, but USA of 3 separate blocks separated by two major independent States is not so serious a player.

And if USA collapses in interstate squabbles... western settlement will not stop, but in what form? The settlers in Kentucky and Vermont were trying to organize their governments in 1780s... if independent States are seen as an option, what will they do?
If there is no Federal budget to buy Louisiana, what next? Completely unauthorized and independent States by Angloamericans migrating to Louisiana and revolting there, as in Texas? A French speaking state for the French settlers of Lower Louisiana?
 

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You could of had the British being nasty towards the Québécois after Seven year war. Over the next decade or two people start to migrate west away from British. You could of settled around Wisconsin and Minnesota area. Following ARW Britain try to break church and enforce English the population west grows steadily as result.

By war of 1812 they form substatial group that aligns with Americans to oppose British. Following war of 1812 they fight continued pressures by both British and Americans.

In 1850 they are conquered by combined British/American attacks.
 
The French from Louisiana could migrate northwest after the purchase, wanting to live under a french state, and set up their own republics there, say in the pacific northwest. That would mean a lot of travel though. Northern Mexico (Texas, Deseret) would also be viable.
 
The US falls apart in it's early years and American settlers travel to Mexican Louisiana where they eventually break away and form their own republics.

Mexican Louisiana? Unless Mexico dominates Spain in its war of revolution, Louisiana will either remain Spanish or separate into its own state. It was a separate colonial entity from Mexico, unlike Texas.
 
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