What if Georgia kept OTL Mississippi and Alabama

You'd eventually end up with a Compromise of 1820 sequel, where free states are coming into the Union and the South wants to maintain the balance. Splitting Tennessee is a nonstarter because East Tennessee has a minimal slave population and is too much of a risk to flip. But Georgia extends all the way to the Mississippi River and can easily spin off one or two states from its western counties.

The specific borders might be different but the states would be created. Preferably both so we wouldn't have all those gumps in Mississippi.
 
You'd eventually end up with a Compromise of 1820 sequel, where free states are coming into the Union and the South wants to maintain the balance. Splitting Tennessee is a nonstarter because East Tennessee has a minimal slave population and is too much of a risk to flip. But Georgia extends all the way to the Mississippi River and can easily spin off one or two states from its western counties.

The specific borders might be different but the states would be created. Preferably both so we wouldn't have all those gumps in Mississippi.

But what if Georgia let's say passes a law saying it's treason against the state to give up any state land what happens then now that Georgia refuses to give up their western lands.
 
You'd eventually end up with a Compromise of 1820 sequel, where free states are coming into the Union and the South wants to maintain the balance. Splitting Tennessee is a nonstarter because East Tennessee has a minimal slave population and is too much of a risk to flip. But Georgia extends all the way to the Mississippi River and can easily spin off one or two states from its western counties.

The specific borders might be different but the states would be created. Preferably both so we wouldn't have all those gumps in Mississippi.

If you split West Tennessee (maybe with that bit of Kentucky west of the Tennessee River), that would be a way to divide Tennessee and ensure the rest of Tennessee probably won't become a free state any time soon. Maybe that would allow Mississippi and Alabama to only be one state, or maybe instead most of Mississippi is joined to this new state of "West Tennessee".
 
The coast of Alabama and Mississippi probably ends up as a state of West Florida. The Florida panhandle is likely made into its own state as well, just to boost numbers.
 
But what if Georgia let's say passes a law saying it's treason against the state to give up any state land what happens then now that Georgia refuses to give up their western lands.

They could refuse, but i can't see them resisting if there's a chance to create additional slave states. In OTL they gave up that territory in less dire (from their perspective) circumstances.
 
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