What if around 1800 some infected bales of Mexican cotton end up in at Augustine and the boll weevil spreads within a decade to devastate the Georgia cotton crop? What are the agricultural, economic and geopolitical effects?
could the weevil thrive in the 1800-1810 Southeastern USA?
If it makes cotton crops highly vulnerable to loss, how do southern plantations crop choices and slavery change?
What does this do to English and New England textile manufacturing development? What about broader commercial consequences for those areas and NYC?
is the advance of white and black settlement west of Georgia and south of Tennessee affected, for example, slowing down?
What are the consequences for the global economy, worldwide tech levels and us westward expansion and relations with Mexico by 1880?