TIMELINE: Flipping America

Here's the concept - North America and Latin America are "flipped". The point of departure follows the articles of Confederations collapse, and will focus heavily on the new American State's interactions with the colonial powers. Current plan is to take this from 1800-present.
 
Here's the concept - North America and Latin America are "flipped". The point of departure follows the articles of Confederations collapse, and will focus heavily on the new American State's interactions with the colonial powers. Current plan is to take this from 1800-present.

POD needs to be before 1700, IMO. How the new states in the Americas came out depended mostly on the government of their respective colonial powers. Government of North American states will lean representative, as it's more or less ingrained in their culture, (but could be disrupted by a major societal disaster), while the governments of Central and South American states broke off from absolute monarchy and will have to start from scratch.
 
POD needs to be before 1700, IMO. How the new states in the Americas came out depended mostly on the government of their respective colonial powers. Government of North American states will lean representative, as it's more or less ingrained in their culture, (but could be disrupted by a major societal disaster), while the governments of Central and South American states broke off from absolute monarchy and will have to start from scratch.

Not if New France and Louisiana manage to avoid annexation by Britain. Which could ultimately result in a more balkanized North America, with a Francophone (under the Bourbon absolute monarchy, after all) central portion and an Anglophone eastern seaboard.
 
Not if New France and Louisiana manage to avoid annexation by Britain. Which could ultimately result in a more balkanized North America, with a Francophone (under the Bourbon absolute monarchy, after all) central portion and an Anglophone eastern seaboard.

I suspect what you have done there is not Balkanised America, you've removed the domino rally of events that led to American colonies seeking independence.
 
I suspect what you have done there is not Balkanised America, you've removed the domino rally of events that led to American colonies seeking independence.

Ah, yes, I realized I removed the raison d'etre for the taxes levied by Parliament on the colonies, and French desire to weaken Britain by supporting colonial independence. :eek:
 
Ah, yes, I realized I removed the raison d'etre for the taxes levied by Parliament on the colonies, and French desire to weaken Britain by supporting colonial independence. :eek:

Not to mention you have kept the attitude in the colonists' minds that they need strong links with the motherland and British rule/support to prevent themselves from being annexed by the French.
 
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