Creating a plausible "Southern Victory" POD.

That alas isn't going to happen, but every little bit we can put things in the Confederacy's favor makes Confederate victory just that marginally less retarded.

Ah yes, its generally considered good manners not to lump the Down's kids and spectrum cases in with the Lost Causers.
 
I suppose being compared to Lost Causers is a rather grave insult. :p

Actually US/UK relations were pretty much chocolate and roses. The San Juan and Aroostock incidents resulted in exactly one casualty, a perfectly innocent black bear, and possibly some potatoes. Even the Pig survived.

Relations as opposed to newspaper editorials are more or less amicable from 1789 and certainly from 1818.

If you want tension you really have to remove the general settlement of boundaries in 1818 and that has fire breathing butterflies. No Anglo American settlement no RN backing for the Monroe Doctrine ( or no doctrine). The US does not get a free ride over Texas, Mexico or the filibustering and the South American liberation wars turn out differently. Not to mention the effect on the South of no opeen market to the Uk for a cotton crop, and on the Uk of reduced access to US wheat later on.

Both parties have a mutual interest in having peaceful relations based on both being isolationist and seeking economic advantage without fighting a war over it. Minor logging concerns in Maine or New Brunswick and complications because of dodgy maps off Vancouver are not worth the possible invasion of Canada and the certain destruction of the US merchant marine.
...Fire-breathing butterflies. That is, just, such a vivid image. :D
 
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