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The POD is before 1900 but most of its effects are after 1900 so I'm putting it here. David T showed in https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/delta-secedes-from-mississippi.358004/ that there was discussion in 1890 in the Mississipi Delta to secede from Mississippi. What if the Delta did secede? In 1893, Democrats have both the presidency and the Congress and are happy to have one more Democratic state and give it statehood.
Let's assume this state is called Deltaland. Ignoring butteflies, in 1965, the Voting Rights Act is passed and, thus, there is a black voting majority state for the first time since the end of Reconstruction. Would the small white minority of Deltaland try to resist the enforcement of the Voting Rights Act or would it flee in large scale?
Regardless, Deltaland would be a safe Democratic state due to its black majority. BTW, if the 2000 election, as it happened in our timeline, wasn't butterflied, Al Gore would win, due to Deltaland's electoral votes.
Regardless, what would the state of Deltaland look like? I suspect that it would probably be the poorest and least developed state of the USA, in this timeline, because the Mississippi Delta is the poorest area of Mississippi, the poorest state in our timeline.
Thoughts?
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