Will Kürlich Kerl
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What happens if the border between the United States and British North America was decided on the 47th Parallel instead of the 49th Parallel?
What happens if the border between the United States and British North America was decided on the 47th Parallel instead of the 49th Parallel?
This is ASB without a POD in the 1810s, and at that point, butterflies would provide many a ripple.
Then present a scenario; sure it's quite an extreme improbability after the 18-teens, and yes, there will be butterflies, but WI. WI the boundary was drawn along the 47th Parallel between the Mississippi & Lake Superior by the 1783 Treaty of Paris? Does this mean that the US has both "Southern Ontario" and "Michigan's Upper Peninsula"? WI the US loses the War of 1812 and is compelled to redraw the OTL Treaty of Paris line? I do wish the OP had been more specific, as either POD will release numerous and different butterflies.
On a historic note, the blue line on the map below shows the first boundary proposal put forward by the Americans at the Paris peace talks:
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I thought that the first American line still put the Upper Peninsula of what is now Michigan into the United States.
That map isn't referring to the 47th Parallel. The 47th Parallel stretches from the shore of Lake Superior in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west.