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We all know the story, right? During the American Revolution, the northern colonies were the ones that were home to the most support for the Patriots, whereas the South, originally, tended to lean more Loyalist during the first half of the war(though Virginia was pretty deeply divided, and the Backcountry Scots-Irish were rather inclined to throw their lot in with the rebels). But what if this whole had been switched? What if the North had been loyalist and the South was the region most supportive of independence?

This is going to be a somewhat difficult challenge to pull off plausibly, but if you choose to accept it, the POD can be no earlier than 1740, and no later than 1772, in the immediate aftermath of the Somerset case. Bonus points of a Dominion of Northern America(or Columbia and New England, maybe?) is created after the Revolution, perhaps along the lines of Sobel's Confederation of North America(if one prefers that).
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