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I sketched out a scenario in which the US deports its non-Anglo populations to *Liberia in the 1780s in exchange for an earlier abolition of slavery, thus attempting to create a more ethnically and racially homogeneous country similar to those in Europe; it didn't end well for most of the people in that the Southern states needed to find an, ahem, alternate way to keep King Cotton going and wound up enslaving poor whites instead. Could it be possible for a more "European" state (in which there isn't mass slavery, racial or otherwise) to form with roughly the US' borders while retaining the same level of prosperity and similar economic drivers? There is some evidence that areas similar geographically to the American Midwest and South - flat, fertile areas - tend to be more right-wing politically for economic reasons (cheap labor plus larger farm size) in a Europe-wide study.
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