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Hypothetical here - by some stroke of luck, the US manages to acquire the territories to its north at some point during the Revolution or in the intervening 40 or so years. Assuming the Missouri Compromise is almost certainly butterflied here, what happens with Maine? Is it simply added to some larger New Brunswick/Nova Scotia state, does it stay part of Massachusetts, or does it manage to become its own state still?
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