Perhaps strictly this belongs in the pre-1900 subforum but the effects are post-1900. Anyhow: Joseph Ruggles Wilson, father of Woodrow Wilson, was from Steubenville, OH. He was a Presbyterian minister and theologian; as such, he moved his family into the south in the early 1850s to accept a ministerial call (IOTL, when the future president was born, he was the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Staunton, VA).
Suppose, however, that Wilson received and accepted a call from a church in, say, PA, DE, or NJ instead of VA? Now we have the young (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson growing up in a northern locale (say, Lancaster, PA, Newark, DE, or Burlington, NJ). Is this likely to butterfly away Wilson's academic bent that led him to the presidency of Princeton--and in turn, his post-academic political ambitions that led to the State House in NJ and the White House?
Suppose, however, that Wilson received and accepted a call from a church in, say, PA, DE, or NJ instead of VA? Now we have the young (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson growing up in a northern locale (say, Lancaster, PA, Newark, DE, or Burlington, NJ). Is this likely to butterfly away Wilson's academic bent that led him to the presidency of Princeton--and in turn, his post-academic political ambitions that led to the State House in NJ and the White House?