DBWI: The Confederation of American States abandons Jeffersonism?

There's no shadow of a doubt that Jefferson was the most important president that the CAS ever had (though back then, before the Bills of Statehood and the Third Constitution, it was known as the 'United States of America'), setting the structure of the country's economy and society well up to today (well, aside from the whole slavery thing, thankfully). Of course, the CAS is a very odd country, possibly the last mercantile nation in the western world, funding almost its entire modern infrastructure through exporting food, hence memetic charts showing Haiti exporting more machine parts per year than a country covering four fifths of the land east of the Mississippi. It can be strange to remember that there was great opposition to this state of affairs when the country began, the Federalist Party pushed very heavily for local manufacturing, stronger government and financial institutions and closer links with the United Kingdom.

My question is, what if, say Thomas Jefferson never became president, or his ideals never became the standard for the young country? How might the first independent nation in the Americas grow?
 
the CAS has the potential to be one of the most advanced states in the world, it could have even been richer than China. But its adherence to this ridiculous outdated ideology damns it to irrealvance, the constant need to sell ever increasing amounts of food means a decreasing amount of return capital, result? Almost no money to upgrade any infrastructure, all of Americas rail network is bellow standards and there are no highways. Still this doesn't stop the nutcases in Washington from threating to periodically blow up the world unless they receive a nice big aid package. Mexico is throughly fed up with having to in essence provide welfare for a bunch of hermit kings.

The only reason the Empire of Mexico and New Albion don't invade the whole thing is because of neither wants the job of deprogramming 10 million people brainwashed their whole lives by Jeffersonianism
 

Yes, another of the reasons for why it is such a strange country, 'The Freest Dictatorship'. The people and government there might not call it as such, but the contrast between the vicegrip on information and industrial technology and the spotless contemporary record on living standards and personal liberty is staggering. How many other countries gave women the vote before abolishing slavery (and that needed foreign intervention and the creation of an entirely new nation)? I personally don't want to live there, because, well, the Internet is pretty great, but even I won't call it 'welfare' for what is essentially a very tense form of trade. Take Mexico, for example, it wasn't just pioneering the assembly line that put Ramirez on the map, exporting tractors to the CAS was what funded the largest by volume building in North America at the time, the Ramirez Automotive Plant. And for living there, you could certainly find worse places, especially if you don't mind farming. When everybody is essentially a self-owned business set towards export and you're entire military consists of a few boats, some policemen and an unknown quantity of bought nuclear weapons, there isn't much for you to do other than save up your pennies. Really, the only thing separating it from something like the German Soviets is importing an Industrial Revolution under Jeffersonism rather than building up a native one under Classical Economics.

But regardless, one of the reasons I asked this is because I recently learned how Napoleon offered to sell all of the then-Louisiana Territory to Jefferson when he asked for New Orleans. Jefferson told him how the country needed money more than it needed land and only bought New Orleans. Such a deal would've doubled the USA's size overnight and give it control over some of the most arable land on the planet. This could just give us a country of 20,000,000 Jeffersonians rather than 10,000,000, but it might be enough to charm the country out of Jeffersonism with the prospect of, say, mineral production and refining, and the beginning of industry.
 
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