North America Minus America

OK it was probably inevitable that the British colonists would've eventually sought independence from the crown, but what if somehow they didn't? Would Texas and California still exist as sovereign nations? I imagine things would be pretty much the same for Canada. Also, the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act might prompt the Southern colonies to seek independence, but what about the less slave-reliant Northern colonies? Would they be like a landlocked version of the Falklands?
 
Texas and California would probably remain part of Mexico, or if annexed to the British Empire, given brand new names. Due to the income from cotton, the British would fail to abolish the slave trade and slavery until decades later, and less industrialization would occur even in the North.

If any part of what would be America became independent from Britain, it would be the North, seeking to escape an arrangement which would otherwise continue to benefit the southern plantocracy and the Parliament in England at the detriment of the North's potential industrialization.
 
The long answer would make for better reading, I think...
i was a tad busy at the time of my earlier post :p the longer answer is that, with the butterflies of no British colonization of America, Texas and California wouldn't be recognizable at all, nor would anything else in the area of OTL's United States. there'd probably be some kind of settlement in the area of each place (and numerous other key locations throughout the country) but they wouldn't be like OTL's Texas and California, not to mention if they'd even have similar populations in them (for example, if there was no European settlement at all, there'd probably be Native American states in their place, OTL precedent within the US being the city of Cahokia)

don't feel too bad about this parallel thinking, though--we were all uninitiated once, myself included.
 
I would say you'd probably see a division on the Pacific around Oregon, north or south depending on circumstances; maybe a slice of East Texas gong to British North America- depends how the Louisiana Purchase/War turns out; most of the South-west still Mexican/Spanish.
 
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