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I've seen a lot of people on this board saying that the choice of the 49th parallel as the US-Canadian border was entirely arbitrary, so I have to ask...what would other choices be? Mostly asking this because I'm writing an alternate US history and want to try to be at least somewhat divergent in that aspect.