The Capital of the Confederacy

Technically so did India and Pakistan and North Korea and South Korea....

Not exactly. Neither India and Pakistan nor the two Koreas shared a single sovereign government other than a colonizing power. India and Pakistan are divided by a major religious conflict and look back to different "Founding fathers". The Koreas were never united after Japanese occupation ended, and from the beginning they had radically different political ideologies.

The USA and CSA would have had about 75 years of full independence as one nation, both looked to people like Washington, Jefferson, Madison, etc as their founding fathers, both were (in the context of their time) liberal, democratic and federal republics, even considering slavery. In OTL, given the extent to which the USA sought accomodation with the south after the brief period o reconstruction, even to the extent of honoring the CSA's military leaders and veterans, I suspect a very similar dynamic would occur if the South acheived independence on its own. I would say if the CSA won because of direct foreign intervention, things might be different, but even then US hostility would be directed at the British or whoever as much as against the Confederacy. And as for the Confederacy, it would be in its interest from the beginning to foster good economic and political relationships with the USA.

I've even speculated that, to symbolize and foster a good relationship between the USA and CSA, the Confederacy might eventually move its permanent captital to Arlington, so the two capitals are literally in spitting distance of each other.
 
I don't think proximity to the border will be a deciding factor. Also, countries tend to decide on their permanent capital and then keep it there, not like US states which apparently move around like buggery

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Grey Wolf

Okay, but in this case if the Union and the Confederacy had both capitals on the border, in case their relations detiorated towards another war they will be on serious threat, so i guess both of them will place the capital to a more safe area...
 
Dixie can into Kentucky! Kentucky pledged neutrality. The Confederates rushed in and invaded, ruining any chance of gaining that. However, if the Union moved into Kentucky territory first, they could get it.

In my TL I imagined a federal district on the banks of the Yazoo in Mississippi, but I guess that's wrong. The Union relocated to Lake Saint Clair, and old Washington is left a neutral city-state...
 
Dixie can into Kentucky! Kentucky pledged neutrality. The Confederates rushed in and invaded, ruining any chance of gaining that. However, if the Union moved into Kentucky territory first, they could get it.

Considering the personalities and people involved, you are unlikely to change those events.
 
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