The rotating US capital.

I'd wonder is some cities wouldn't avoid this like the plague... they'd have to set aside a lot of land and give up all development/tax opportunities on it for 10 years. I suppose the Feds would absorb the expense of actually building everything, but it seems it would be a hassle for some of the smaller cities...

You're right. Smaller cities wouldn't, for the most part, want to mess with competing for the honor of being the US Capital. Anymore than small cities would try for the Olympics OTL.
 
So I was thinking today about where to go from here with this TL.

One thing that occurred to me was this: what if, with continued Southern settlement in territories of the Old North West, spreading southern culture and slavery into lands that traditionally OTL were "free," what if over the clash of slavery, the Northern States secede from the Union?

What I have in my mind is some sort of truce/peace coming from that war with reunification, with slavery phased out and gradual granting of citizenship, but as a by-product, the country takes on more southern cultural items. Possibly could see "dixie" as a more nationally recognized song? stronger national states rights sentiments? NOt a fully fleshed out idea yet, but it was something that sounded interesting. I don't think I've ever read a TL where the North is the side that secedes from the Union.

Thoughts?
 
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