Forever if it's a state
That's because the only votes in favour of statehood have been the last two - and they were really marginal (for differing reasons). Puerto Rico didn't WANT statehood.But what are the odds of Cuba being granted statehood? Puerto Rico's been in the US since then and it still doesn't have statehood. People in both Cuba and the contiguous US would probably feel that the two were too culturally distinct.
Forever, but the real POD would be to create a U.S.A. that annexed Cuba in the first place.
I don't think the Confederates would have gone for Cuba after the Civil War. For one they had no reason too. The South wanted Cuba IOTL to add a slave state or two. Secondly they'd have enough problems just keeping the CSA up and maintaining a large standing army to deter Washington. Also Southerners were some of the main persons who wanted to halt Manifest Destiny to places like Cuba because they were brown and Catholic. I suppose this ATL CSA could just enslave the whole island but considering international abolitionist sentiment that seems unlikely.One possibility is if the Confederacy survives, and after the Spanish lose a war with...doesn't matter if it's the USA or CSA but one of them, the two nations go on a territory grab and either one side snaps up Cuba or they split it.
Puerto Rico is completely ignored in DC. There too small to make too much of a fuss that would be notice. Ironic considering how many Puerto Rican live in the mainland.But what are the odds of Cuba being granted statehood? Puerto Rico's been in the US since then and it still doesn't have statehood. People in both Cuba and the contiguous US would probably feel that the two were too culturally distinct.
Cuba is not a state pretty much because it becoming part of the US means that US states that grow sugar beets would face competition from Cuban sugar cane without tariff walls. That's why Senator Teller of Colorado proposed his amendment making sure Cuba got independenceThe US would do what we do with every state: flood it with people from the continental 48, the cultures merge and a lot of white folks suddenly live there to the point where it's American with native flavor, and McDonald's makes a milkshake based on a native holiday. Cuba, as an American territory and state, is going to be heavily settled by Americans. As a foreign country, it was America's vacation spot until Castro. As a state, millions of people would move there, buy land, develop it, bring businesses, the military infrastructure there would bring a lot of people in too, and so on. Come to think of it, it's weird we didn't make Cuba a state. We managed to do it with Alaska, and that should have been the Hail Mary of statehoods.
Cuba is not a state pretty much because it becoming part of the US means that US states that grow sugar beets would face competition from Cuban sugar cane without tariff walls. That's why Senator Teller of Colorado proposed his amendment making sure Cuba got independence
Make Cuba two states with capitols in Havana and Santiago. When baseball starts up we can have at least two teams coming from there
The US would do what we do with every state: flood it with people from the continental 48, the cultures merge and a lot of white folks suddenly live there to the point where it's American with native flavor, and McDonald's makes a milkshake based on a native holiday. Cuba, as an American territory and state, is going to be heavily settled by Americans. As a foreign country, it was America's vacation spot until Castro. As a state, millions of people would move there, buy land, develop it, bring businesses, the military infrastructure there would bring a lot of people in too, and so on. Come to think of it, it's weird we didn't make Cuba a state. We managed to do it with Alaska, and that should have been the Hail Mary of statehoods.
I don't think the Confederates would have gone for Cuba after the Civil War. For one they had no reason too. The South wanted Cuba IOTL to add a slave state or two. Secondly they'd have enough problems just keeping the CSA up and maintaining a large standing army to deter Washington. Also Southerners were some of the main persons who wanted to halt Manifest Destiny to places like Cuba because they were brown and Catholic. I suppose this ATL CSA could just enslave the whole island but considering international abolitionist sentiment that seems unlikely.
There are also more practical issues. Like:
A. Would the CSA have a Navy large enough to support such an invasion
B. How would the USA respond.
C. Could the CSA spare enough of their military to invade Cuba?
D. How would Spain respond?
E. Did the CSA have enough force to enslave a group of free people that large?
Etc. etc. I also doubt the USA would want Cuba they'd likely just want to keep it out of CSA hands.
So we are also assuming this war occurs before 1886? A full 13 years before the OTL Spanish-American War?Why would they enslave free Cubans? Couldn't they just "steal" the Cuban slaves?