-KKK rises in the south and organizes politically at an earlier stage
-Feinian raids involve UK more and threaten war, Washington as manpower but is forced to back down in face of UK naval supremacy and fear of loss of trade
-Socialist riots see more harsh crackdowns following depressions in 1873 and 1890
-US loses to Spain in Spanish-American war and popular perception is that Southern units take the brunt of the losses (mostly due to disease before leaving port), Washington loses significant face in the eyes of much on the country
-US loses takeover bid for Hawaii as UK moves in following defeat by the Spanish, brief stirrings of conflict are resolved but Washington loses more face
-General strike ensues across the nation afterwards following depression in 1901, McKinley is shot in the course of events and panic ensues as Washington thinks it is the work of international Communism
-Secret Service forms "Homeland Security" division, any reference to Marx is burned and accusations require surprisingly little evidence to become official charges
-Tensely divided country sparks into domestic riots starting because of concerns over coal-mining in West Virginia, riots spread nationwide in 9 days
-Armed forces and "concerned citizens" (i.e. draftees for Homeland Security) put down riots in national bloodbath known as Anne Picken's day after a child killed by unknown people on the first day of the riots
-Prohibition is passed soon afterwards as "demon rum" is blamed for the incindiary behavior
-Criminal elements take over much of the country and corruption goes all the way to the top
-World War I goes badly for US with repeated defeats due to premature involvement, soldiers bring back Spanish flu in third year of fighting
-Flu pandemic causes panic and widespread, unabashed corruption leads to mistrust of public officials. Trade slows dramatically as people fight to ward off plague victims and refugees
-Texas decides it is better off alone instead of being on "the losing team" and secedes on August 21, 1921. US armed forces begin to rally to reclaim the state but surprisingly other states decide they will join Texas, namely New Mexico, Arizona, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.
-Texas sends out a call of distress: fight for us and become citizens, no questions asked. Rebuild an American dream here as Texans and live under a Free State
-US armed forces are battered and facing veterans of equal quality t their own troops, the battles are horrific and little headway is made
-California asks for home-rule status as it is facing raids from Texas and most US troops are occupied, Utah asks for the same, both are denied
-Utah secedes on March 4, 1922 and California secedes two days later, they will later join with Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado to form the Union of Western American States
-Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina secede with Texas as the Boll Weevil devastates the South and little relief from an impoverished government is evident
-Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia hold secession referendums but they fail to pass
-Texas forces break through US lines and march into Kansas and Missouri in late 1922, by the time a cease-fire is called the battle lines run through middle Tennessee, the Missouri river, and the northern 3/4 of Kansas
-Treaty of Denver: US recognizes the newly formed Republic of Texas (now including southern/central Kansas and Missouri) and the UWAS as it has little power to stop them from leaving, both new nations are quickly recognized by the major powers
-Great Depression causes anxiety and angst among newer countries and the US leftovers, the Deep South leaves Texas after feeling it is not getting treated fairly from the oil money going into Texas proper and forms the Confederated States of North America out of Atlanta (FL, GA, SC, AL, MS - This impoverished nation continues to remain among the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere though it is stubbornly independent and irredentalist for much of the former US). In a swelling or religious fervor, the Republic of Deseret (Utah, western Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming, and southern Idaho) secedes from the UWAS leaving northern Idaho and Montana to combine with Eastern Washington as the Free Mountain Republic. Alaska votes to join the UWAS as a state. Eastern Colorado surprisingly returns to the US.
-World War II sees the United States flourish as an industrial powerhouse with the help of trade with the Free Mountain Republic and Republic of Deseret. Industrialization revitalizes the Great Lakes and sees Kentucky, Nebraska, and Wisconsin emerge as newly industrialized states (no California incentives here). UWAS permits UK to use San Francisco Bay as a naval station much to the chargin of Washington.