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Well this is a discussion I'm interested in since the POD is what drives my TL (cough shameless plug cough). In a nutshell it was an idea I had through being tired of the same POD about the Civil War being done to death so I thought of something else.

The premise is that the US annexes more of Mexico than they did in OTL Mexican War (all of California up to Baja, Sonora, Chiuaua, Alamos, Batopilas, Mapimi, Nazas, Coahuila, most of Neuvo Leon, and Matamoros if that gives you an idea) and in the resulting post-war fall out this merely exacerbates existing tensions between the North and South, South doesn't want any others hostile to slavery in the Union, Mexicans unhappy about being forced into the Union, Northerners unhappy about the annexation or the potential spread of slavery.

Flawed solutions are drawn up: California is split into two states, a free north and slave owning south, Another flawed compromise of 1850, the slave states do all they can to ensure that the Mexican territories are unable to apply for statehood as long as possible, among other things.

Now that's my premise for the lead up to an alternate Civil War and I just wonder how it might play out (outside of my own TL of course, but that's a different thing entirely :p) and I'm wondering on the thoughts of the board on how this POD would effect the Civil War.
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