Western United States of America- How?

There used to be an excellent timeline on the web called How the West was Weird, although I can't seem to find it anymore. Essentially, successful Bear Flag revolt in California in 1846, treaty of union with the USA fails primarily due to Douglas' jerking around the treaty in the Senate to mess with Mormons, then there's a Civil War and Reconstruction, and by the time Reconstruction is over, California has been a sovereign nation for 30 years...covering OTL's California, Nevada, Arizona and Baja California, with Deseret also an independent country.
 
I'm sure you know this, but, the red - blue thing is a media construct not a party one.

A conspiracy by the media to paint the Republican Party in a bad light? First of all, isn't the media a bit on the red side (that is to say more left than right). Second of all, have you seen some of the people trying to get the R nomination for President? Trying to make them look bad is redundant.
 
Alot of Ex Confedertes would probably flee to Texas. Though that is to say, without a western expansion, the US may have not had a Civil War over slavery.
 
No US-Mexican War over Texas would have meant continued Mexican control of California, which down the line could lead to a particuarist nature in Anglophone Californians who, when they do rebel eventually, don't do so with a desire to join the USA

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Its a bit hard to say. IOTL before the actual Civil War there was fighting in the newly settled areas of the Midwest-"Bloody Kansas", in the 1850s. With an independent pro-slavery Texas, but with a smaller, more insecure South, this type of fighting might be more intense and widespread with fighting in Nebraska and/or Missouri. An earlier Civil War might even start in the Midwest instead of being triggered by the Confederate attack on Ft Sumter.

My guess might be that the Civil War would start earlier but that the South would not have been as united, perhaps Virginia other southern states would stay with the union.Maybe a French-Texas alliance would aid the South. I have a feeling though that there probably wouldn't be a lot Texas could do to aid the South,distances are great and much of Texas and the Southwest wasn't highly populated at that time.This TL Civil War would be over quicker,maybe in a year.These are just my guesses though.
 
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