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While puzzling out my latest Ameriwank TL, I realized that early successful Manifest Destiny expansion of the USA across the Americas would have caused a rather different pattern than OTL about economic-political shape of the USA and the number/size/shape of the various US states.

PoD is Quebec and Nova Scotia joining the ARW in 1775. The USA get Canadian colonies and territories in 1781, have Federalist Administrations up to 1808, then expansionist Democratic ones, build a rather good military, kick French butt in the French-American War, get French Caribbean colonies in 1800, buy Lousiana territory and Hispaniola in 1803, kick British butt in the War of 1812, gain Rupert's Land, Northwest territory, Labrador, Jamaica, Bermuda, Bahamas, Florida, and all of Guiana (down to Rio de Amazones) in 1816, get heavily involved in wars of independence of Spanish colonies and annex Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia as a result. They develop a long-term love/hate imperialistic competition with the British Empire (which rebuilds an American colonial empire in southern South America) and France, have bouts of cooperation/competition with Greater Germany and Russia (more successful ITTL thanks to post-Napoleonic PoD). They are expected to annex all of Mexico when the Mexican-American War rolls by, buy or conquer Pacific Northwest, Alaska, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Philippines in mid-late 1800s, defeat Britain and her allies again in the World Wars and conquer Newfoundland, British West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, TTL British South America (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, southern Brazil), and Brazil. ACW is expected to happen in the mid-late 1850s and go to Union victory (Britain is busy with colonial wars in India and China and cannot seize the opportunity to weaken their rival).

I think I can grasp some of the basic political and economic changes that an Ameriwank TL would cause: a different party system, with Federalists remaining one of the major parties and perhaps remaining vital all the way to the ACW if not modern times (they effectively evolve in the Republicans equivalent), Canadian Great Lakes region and the praire states getting more immigration and economic development with integration with the Midwest and New England, the ACW coming slightly (but not that much) earlier from increased territorial competition between free and slaveholding states, racial segregation being butterflied away after the ACW, Mexican and South American states getting rather more socioeconomic development and industrialization than OTL. But I eagerly welcome further suggestions about this.

About the issue of racial/cultural tensions arising from large numbers of Indian and mixed Hispanics becoming US citizens in the 1800s, I expect things would go this way: the early precedent created by successful political and cultural integration of Catholic French-speakers helps integration of Spanish-speakers, as does the lasting strong cultural support for Manifest Destiny ideas that develop during the 1810s-1820s. So Spanish-speaking white or mixed educated affluent elites get accepted as another kind of American, "one drop of blood" racism does not develop, Indian poor uneducated masses get "economic" discrimination as a underclass (e.g. literacy/wealth qualification for voting), ACW fought with many Hispanic states supporting the Union leads to a different Reconstruction and effective if painful eradication of racial segregation and sociopolitical/economic integration for blacks and Indians in late 1800s. I'm uncertain whether this would affect mainland American/Canadian native Americans or not.

Now, what I have really few defined ideas about is how this TL would mold the shapes and number (apart from there being a lot more of them of course) of the US states. E.g. I expect the shapes of more than a few US mainland, Canadian, Mexican, Caribbean and South American states to become different if they all develop within the same nation. So far, I had Nova Scotia include Acadia/New Brunswick, southern Ontario become the state of Franklin, southern Quebec getting split in Quebec (up to St-Lawrence's mouth) and East Quebec (up to Labrador's border), and the OTL US states up Mississippi being the same. But I'm unsure how to proceed from there.
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