The Effects no Hatfield-McCoy feud?

hey, all. i've been batting around this idea for a while. some of you may know that i'm shooting for a shorter ACW in my ASB ATL as a result of the Union having smokeless powder. i also know that it was during the Civil War that Asa Harmon McCoy was killed (possibly by Jim Vance, one of the Hatfields), which was the first instance of violence between the two families

now, if the ACW is both shorter and potentially on a shorter scale (e.g., the Hatfields and/or McCoys do not involve themselves) then their feud may not escalate to the point of violence. in addition to affecting American culture to some extent (the archetypal feuding families are not the Hatfields and McCoys, affecting any fiction that they appear in; possibly, the metaphor "the real McCoy" may not come into use), how else does everyone think the world around them would be affected?
 
the real McCoy was not from the feud, but rather prohibition a bootlegger who got the good stuff was a McCoy and thus the real McCoy. however without the feud you do loose "what the sam hill" because sam hill was sent by ky to find out what was going on in the tug valley
 
the real McCoy was not from the feud, but rather prohibition a bootlegger who got the good stuff was a McCoy and thus the real McCoy. however without the feud you do loose "what the sam hill" because sam hill was sent by ky to find out what was going on in the tug valley
that was why i said possibly it wouldn't come into use ;) i even looked up its origins before making the thread, and it's generally unclear, but with the feud being just one of the possible origins

any ideas for how a lack of the feud would affect the rest of it all? according to the brief research i did when i made this thread, Anse Hatfield had garnered his family's wealth via a timbering operation, so d'you think they could conceivably go further with that later in history? (i know nothing about the timber industry of the time, for the record)
 

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how else does everyone think the world around them would be affected?


There would be little or no discernible effect. Maybe a change in slang terms, but the "loss" of a feud between two clans of Appalachian assclowns isn't any loss at all.

Besides, if not the Hatfields and McCoys, it would have the been the Smiths and Browns, the Jukes and Kallikaks, or some other families.
 
There would be little or no discernible effect. Maybe a change in slang terms, but the "loss" of a feud between two clans of Appalachian assclowns isn't any loss at all.

Besides, if not the Hatfields and McCoys, it would have the been the Smiths and Browns, the Jukes and Kallikaks, or some other families.

Yeah, we would lose one history channel tvshow I never bothered to watch but which was apparently pretty decent. Thats it. Maybe the replacement show would be a big enough hit to break the hold that reality shows and conspiracy theories have on the channel?
 
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