States of an Alternate USA Thread

Nickajack

Consists of: The Appalachian foothills of East Tennessee and Northern Alabama.

Statehood: November 7th, 1861
Population: 900,000.
Capital and largest City: Chattanooga (pop: 160,000)
Governor: "Maximum" Davey Frogmore (Blue Dog Party) (elected 2006)

History: Established as an officially neutral but defacto unionist state during the first civil war. The inhabitants were sympathetic to states rights but not interested in a war "fought by the poor for the rich". There were very few slave owners in the region.
 
I'm bumping this thread, because I think it has some potential.

DAKOTA

Consists of: OTL North and South Dakota, most of OTL Montana, OTL northern Wyoming (all of what is on the map below except for the lightest blue part that corresponds to OTL southern Wyoming)
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Statehood: February 17, 1863
Population: 2.1 million (2000 US Census)
Capital: Bismark
Governor: John Hoeven (elected 2002)

History: President Abraham Lincoln was convinced to create the Dakota Territory in 1861. As calls began to mount to split the territory in early 1863, Lincoln instead decided to admit Dakota as a state, hoping that the citizens of the new state would be more willing to fight for the Union in the Civil War. This resulted in the admission of one of the largest states in the US, which remained together despite calls from the Republicans in the 1880s to split the state into two. The capital of Dakota was moved to Bismark in 1883, and it remains there today. One of the most popular features of Dakota is Mount Rushmore, a mountain with the faces of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and McKinley (who served a full second term ITTL) carved into it.
 

NomadicSky

Banned
WEST FLORIDA

Consists of: This territory (in OTL terms, roughly the western portion of the Florida Panhandle, southern Alabama and Mississippi, and the portions of Louisiana north of New Orleans and east of the Mississippi River)
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Statehood granted: December 10th, 1817
Population: 4.8 million (2000 US Census)
Capital: Natchez
Governor: Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (elected in 2006)

History: In the Treaty of Paris, the British granted West Florida to the United States as a territory, while East Florida was returned to Spain. However, Spain continued to claim the territory until 1795, when it finally recognized US ownership of the territory. It was admitted to the Union on December 10th, 1817, roughly two years before the United States gained East Florida from the Spanish.

I just can't see Natchez still being the capital, by now they'd have moved it somewhere more central within the state.

I like that idea BTW its far better a divide for the states of Mississippi and Alabama to have gone that way, rather than the current. We have far more in common with a divide like that rather than the insane one that currently exist.

I've created something similar. I call the northern state Madison, named after then president James Madison, and leave the Mississippi territory and later states Mississippi to the south. However since you've got that one there, nevermind.
 
State of Houston
capital: Amarillo

State of Bonham
capital: El Paso

State of Crockett
capital: Corpus Christi

State of Lamar
capital: Dallas

all admitted: 1860

The admisson of the "Texas Quartet" and the admission of Kansas as a slave state in 1861, by preserving Southern power in the US Senate quelled moves toward civil war caused by the election of Abraham Lincoln.
By the time the proposed addition of new free states in the late 1880's threatened to upset the balance again, it was clear to all that with the economic strength of the north that any sectional conflict would be a "no win" scenario for the south, southern leaders accepted the Sherman plan where the United States purchased all slaves at 80% of market value, with half to be paid to owners and descendants over 100 years.
Non-impoverished owners used thses funds to hire thoses ex-slaves who sayed in the south as farm laborers. African-Americans became citizens and the right to vote in the 18th Amendment passed in 1920.

Sorry for the thinnesson state statistics, but I don't have time to work out population or governors. If someone else wants to, be my guest.
 
The admisson of the "Texas Quartet" and the admission of Kansas as a slave state in 1861, by preserving Southern power in the US Senate quelled moves toward civil war caused by the election of Abraham Lincoln.

Sorry, but it's been established that there was, in fact, a Civil War from 1861 to 1866 ITTL. The rest of what you said could stand as some sort of a compromise after the war, though.
 
Was Iroquois an English or French colony originally in that POD?

If it's a state formed by Natives, chances are it'd be called Haudenosaunee, their own name, rather than the French derived Iroquois.

If it's the latter, they'd have to change their laws quite a bit upon entry to the US. Give men the right to vote and own property for one, something the Iroquois only allowed for women.

The Iriquois were independent, but because of the Dutch presence in New Amsterdam (which voted to join the Union in 1824) trade with the IQ was stronger with the colonies than with the British, thus during the Revolution they voted to join the colonists against the British.
 
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Deseret

Statehood: March 15, 1850
Population: 23,700,312
Capital: Salt Lake City
Largest City: Los Angeles
Govenor: Jon Huntsman

The failure of Johnston to take Echo Canyon from the Mormons (Battle of Echo Canyon), and the inability for Polk to negotiate a settlement with the victors forced Sam Houston to propose to accept the Mormons willingness to join as the State of Deseret.
 
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