More Succesful Shaysites

I was recently reading up on Shays' Rebellion (IMHO, a sadly neglected part of US history). Being an Alternate Historian, I naturally began thinking of wys to alter it. While the question of better Articles of Conederation holding the new nation together for longer is intriguing in and of itself, I was more drawn to the idea of a more successful Rebellion. While I have no illusions about the viability of the Rebellion forming a new independant state (though the idea of a divided Massachusetts is interesting), just how far can the Shaysites (and other, related rebellions) go?
 
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