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July 4, 2012 will mark the 236th birthday of the United States of America. It will also mark the 145th anniversary that Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Maine announced it was leaving the union and declared the birth of the Republic of New England with Boston as its capital city.

New England has gone through so much in its life as a nation since it elected Charles Sumner as the country's first President. From the infrastructure projects pushed by former Massachusetts Governor John F. Fitzgerald (President of New England, 1923-1931), the shipbuilding industry championed by Prescott Bush (President, 1939-1951), the admittance of Newfoundland as the 7th and New Brunswick as the 8th states of New England on July 4, 1947, and the 8 World Series titles won by the Boston Red Sox (1918, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1967, 1987, 2001, 2004), New England stands as a proud beacon of light on this North American continent.

Is there any way that New England could have stayed in the USA instead of declaring its independence following its disastrous defeat in the Civil War, or is it just ASB? Would more competent leadership from Abraham Lincoln result in his reelection in 1864, defeating the CSA and keeping the union intact? And in a New England that did not secede, would Newfoundland have instead been a viable province of Canada? And would the Fitzgerald and Kennedy families have more difficulties as Roman Catholics running for political office in the USA?
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