Good. Reading is a good thing.
this is not about that, its about if it became a state!
Stein explains why it didn't become a state so, in order for it to become a state, we have to change one of the reasons why it didn't become a state. That change is called a POD and that's what we discuss here:
PODs PODs are important because they alone determine the events that follow.
It's useless to ask
IF Franklin became a state without knowing
HOW Franklin became a state. The
HOW is determined by the
POD, the
POD then shapes the events which follow, and those following events are exactly what you're asking about in this thread.
Last I checked his book wasn't a alternate history.
And neither are your open ended, vague, POD-free questions.
Tell us how it happened and we'll have a better chance of mulling over which plausible events could happen next.