More significant South America

Ambiguous title, yes, but I'm thinking of ideas here...

First of all, for a wee map I'm making, I want to know how we can get a stronger Brazil in alliance with a more western hemisphere-orientated USA, so much so that both nations get involved on the same side in wars in South America. I'm also considering adding Bolivia to this alliance and Argentina.

Can it be done?
 
USA could retain slavery, and by the 1880s, they and Brazil are pariahs with no choice but to form an alliance... but this wold have to ignore growing social agitation against slavery in both countries.
 
Opposition to slavery is an idea that was bound to form, regardless of how manyy times Wilberforce dies. Perhaps the United States does not industrialise in the North, and the whole place remains rural, almost backwater. To get anywhere, they would have to rely on slavery, so any opposition would be impractical and not score any votes.

But then, that just turns the United States into a bigger CSA.:eek:
 
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