DBWI: Rebellion of '76 Not Put Down?

The name of the conflict is misleading, since the rebellion began before, and continued for a short while after, the stated year. It is not popularly known to many from outside America, nor remembered by much of the younger generations within it (save for the right wing), but in the then American colonies, tensions between Colonists and the British government erupted in an armed rebellion in 1776, with an open declaration of independence from the British Empire.

This rebellion was put down shortly thereafter, and it's leaders bought off or executed for their treason. But, what if it had succeeded?
 
The name of the conflict is misleading, since the rebellion began before, and continued for a short while after, the stated year. It is not popularly known to many from outside America, nor remembered by much of the younger generations within it (save for the right wing), but in the then American colonies, tensions between Colonists and the British government erupted in an armed rebellion in 1776, with an open declaration of independence from the British Empire.

This rebellion was put down shortly thereafter, and it's leaders bought off or executed for their treason. But, what if it had succeeded?

There was a guy here in the Confederation of Canada who authored a book on that very subject in 1976. It's probably one of the best Allo-Historical book series ever written and details the success of the ATL America from that P.O.D. up until the election of U.S. President Jimmy Carter(who's based on the OTL soccer player Jonny Carter if I recall correctly), as, I recall, has inspired numerous fanfiction stories, from Johnny Turtledove's lighthearted "C.S.A" series, to Jeff Andrews' "Decades of Darkness" one-off(DoD isn't for the light-hearted, lemme warn you).

It's kinda tragic, IMO, because the U.S. had a lot of promise....and it wasn't until the "Rupert's Land" revolts in 1840, (that ensured my country's independence from Britain just seven years later, btw) that Republican/Democratic liberalism started becoming popular again, outside of France and the Maritime Union.

Also, Norton, I hate to disagree with you, but my research, and frankly, my life's experience, it's the left wing in the American Confederation who have the fondest opinions of the Revolution(or at least, as far as the North American scale goes). I was born in 1967, and can vaguely remember some of the "Yank bomb" attacks that occurred in the middle and late '70s(they never tried to kill any innocent civilians and other than a few soldiers, Pa. governor Lewis Mitchell, James Hilliard, and the entire membership of the Paxton, Texas, branch of the Jeb Caden Society, the only fatality I can think of who wasn't a target, was that one janitor who died in the Morgan, Indiana bombing in Sep. 1971.....though he wasn't supposed to be at work anyhow); pretty much every organization involved was either left or centrist. And pretty much everyone I've met who really likes the Revolutionaries have been lefties, and/or people with at least a notable libertarian and/or progressive streak.
 
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