Paul V McNutt
Banned
If Van Buren or Clay is elected in 1844, I think we can avoid the Mexican War and therefore avoid the civil war. I think do to economic changes and international pressure ITTL slavery would die out. There would be no 14th or 15th amendments. African American's legal status would be different state by state. In most of the US they would be legal second class citizens. The South would have an apartheid system. The Northern states that passed exclusion laws would get to keep them. Some states would offer equality. In politics the slavery issue never becomes the most pressing issue. The Whig Party survives and today is the conservative party like OTL's Republicans.