Assuming US Control long enough to place US born slave owners as the primary aristocracy of Cuba before the Civil War (by at least 1840, I think), what sort of effects do we have.
1) One (two?) more slave states, can we keep balance with California and Minnesota? This might make the Southerners more willing to fight within the system rather than leave...
2) It *won't* be enough to flip the election. (presuming the same states as Lincoln, he got 180 of 303), You'd need to have 57 more electoral votes against him.You need two states about the size of Pennsylvania (each 2 million plus people) added, and Cuba isn't that large...
3) Breaking the blockade. While the Union might find it tougher to enforce the blockade, I don't think it will be significantly so. I'm not quite sure what data is available that would help to understand that.
4) Doing a Taiwan. I can't see the Confederate Government retreating to Cuba, and even if they did, I can't see them surviving there...
Does that speak to the main points of the idea?
1) One (two?) more slave states, can we keep balance with California and Minnesota? This might make the Southerners more willing to fight within the system rather than leave...
2) It *won't* be enough to flip the election. (presuming the same states as Lincoln, he got 180 of 303), You'd need to have 57 more electoral votes against him.You need two states about the size of Pennsylvania (each 2 million plus people) added, and Cuba isn't that large...
3) Breaking the blockade. While the Union might find it tougher to enforce the blockade, I don't think it will be significantly so. I'm not quite sure what data is available that would help to understand that.
4) Doing a Taiwan. I can't see the Confederate Government retreating to Cuba, and even if they did, I can't see them surviving there...
Does that speak to the main points of the idea?
Last edited: