North and South, early American breakup/Civil War.

In the early days of the U.S, the nation was highly divided over how to operate itself. The biggest divide was between the North and the South. Each side had its own culture and tendency's, which got in the way of forming a complete nation in its early days. Eventually in OTL, this boiled over in the 1860's when the South attempted to secede from the rest of the U.S. However, could this have happened sooner?
My idea is simple. An early divide between the states of america caused by two simple factor's. New Amsterdam and New Sweden. In OTL, New Amsterdam was a Dutch colony in North america, which roughly held onto modern day New York and parts of new Jersey, Delaware and Connecticut. New Sweden, which was annexed by the Dutch in 1655, remains independent until the American Revolution as well. It has control over parts of New Jersey and Delaware.
How would the survival of these colonies affect the american revolution? Would the two states create a divide between the North and South due to geographic problems? If not, would they be offered to join the united states or be annexed by it? Also could these states even survive until then?
 
Also could these states even survive until then?

This is the big one. I'm going with "no".

New Sweden and the New Netherlands were doomed in the long term for the same reason why New France was doomed in the long term: their colonial populations were far inferior to those of the English/later British colonies. France could plausibly have won the Seven Years' War; but could it have defeated the British colonists in North America in the next war a few decades later, or the next war a few decades after that et cetera? Even by the 18th century IOTL the dominance of the British-Americans was already at the stage where New France, far more impressive and powerful a colony than those of Sweden or the Netherlands, counted mere survival against them as a victory.

Also, one must note the influence which the elimination of non-British European power in most of North America had on the formation of the United States in the first place. The fall of French power in North America turned the forces of Great Britain in North America, in the perspective of the British-Americans, from essential protectors against the dangerous foreign threat to an unnecessary and unwanted burden on American money and homes; it was also the direct cause of the British policies restricting colonial expansion that so enraged the colonists IOTL, since multiple formerly French-aligned Native American tribes were now no longer aligned to the French (since the French had been expelled) and the British were trying to woo them over (and also, arguably, since Great Britain no longer needed its colonists to control as much land as possible in order to prevent the Native American tribes allied to the French from controlling it). If there remains a non-British European power that poses a serious threat to the supremacy of the British colonists in their region of North America, the Americans will probably not become independent in the first place, because of those factors.
 
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