AHC: Make Moscow the capital of the USA

And like Alexandria, it's not so crazy to imagine the government relocating down that way if something unfortunate happened to Washington.

If DC hadn't returned the Virginia portion wouldn't Alexandria actually fall within the District of Columbia?
 
If DC hadn't returned the Virginia portion wouldn't Alexandria actually fall within the District of Columbia?

That's correct. It's intimately linked with DC historically, but once talk of banning slavery in the District became a thing, Alexandria needed to go.
 

trurle

Banned
The US didn't own any of Idaho in 1812, so apart from the silliness of America being reconquered in 1812, this still doesn't work.
I do not expect the capital to be transferred to Moscow, Idaho in 1812 outright. Also, in alternative timeline War of 1812 may simmer for decades (given the British are not decisively defeated in any point). Finally, if not war is not lost in 1812, when? War of 1812 was the only 19th-century US conflict with any European country. Of course, Civil War can still be considered, but i doubt the US government-in-Idaho (Union or Confederate) is plausible from political point of view.

The POD..well, non-extinct and much more vile Rocky Mountain Locust. Well-timed locust infestations can damage the agriculture and economics of the US to the point what conquest by the British may become possible.

Idaho brief timeline (OTL):
1811. First European explorers
1816. British trading posts
1824. US traders arrive
1836. First US settlers arrive
1846. Oregon Treaty - Idaho under firm US control.

Couple a flux of the US refugees from locusts and war-ravaged East Coast to this timeline, and you can get some towns capable of supporting government by 1840 - in the territory which is extremely easy to defend against any potential enemy.
 
What if in May 29, 1861, Jefferson Davis, after gaining weapons from Russia, moves the Confederate capital to St. Petersburg, in Florida, where the capital stays until 1918, after the third civil war, where Georgian politican, Joseph Steel, born from Russian Caucasian Georgian immigrants moves the new communist central government bodies to the newly built Moscow in Georgia (OTL Atlanta)

Fixed that for you. :3

That's correct. It's intimately linked with DC historically, but once talk of banning slavery in the District became a thing, Alexandria needed to go.

And, as far as I know, Alexandria isn't exactly cool at being part of the capital when they can't vote on a stately level (i.e. Virginia).
 

Asami

Banned
What if in May 29, 1861, Jefferson Davis, after gaining weapons from Russia, moves the Confederate capital to St. Petersburg, in Florida, where the capital stays until 1918, after the third civil war, where Georgian politican, Joseph Steel, born from Russian immigrants moves the new communist central government bodies to the newly built Moscow in Georgia (OTL Atlanta)

St. Petersburg, Florida didn't exist for another 31 years. Remember that in 1861, Florida was almost all swamp-land. Hell, Tampa was a tiny little military installation on a small bay. That was it.
 
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