North and South split from the start

aspie3000

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In a lot of timelines in which there is an independent American south the POD is the CSA winning the civil war, but I have an idea for which I would like to know the plausibility and implications of. What if after the American revolutionary war due to the enlightenment principles of all men being created equal and an earlier abolitionist fervor the southern colonies of Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia split from the north and two different governments were formed one southern one northern so as the two sections of the United States are separate from the start? Given the differing cultures of north and south how would their governments and institutions differ from the beginning? How would the expansion west work out? What would the world be like today?
 
I wrote this which has Washington winning at Bryandywine and a few other changes that result in an earlier Constitutional Convention as well and posits a South that takes off on its own and then splits apart bit by bit, but there is no Virginia or Maryland involved.

I don't know how Virginia's presence would have changed things, but I suspect that, given the other things that needed compromised on, if Virginia doesn't want to be part of it you would have them as their own country and then the southernmost 3 as their own.
 
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