What if Delaware remained as three Pennsylvania counties? It was always intended to be part of the original grant to Penn.
Depends on what aspect of American / U.S. Regional History is to be impacted?
As an alternative, I have always wondered what would the Delmarva Peninsula would have been as a stand alone state?
- No change to the rise of the DuPont Corporation
- Dover Air Force Base may or may not exist today depending how on Congressional and Senatorial military appropriations are allocated
- Roth IRA could be a figment of our imagination.
- V.P. Biden could have never existed and become nothing more than a school teacher in Scranton, PA.
- Would a 50th alternative State been selected?
- No lucrative corporate tax laws to be established in DE. Some other state would have figured out the benefit to being the official P.O. Box for corporations.
- Scrapple would still be a regional delicacy.
- I-95 would probably not have gone through Wilmington and the Susquehanna Bridge not been built with I-95 running farther north.
What if Delaware remained as three Pennsylvania counties? It was always intended to be part of the original grant to Penn.
Depends on what aspect of American / U.S. Regional History is to be impacted?
As an alternative, I have always wondered what would the Delmarva Peninsula would have been as a stand alone state?
- No change to the rise of the DuPont Corporation
- Dover Air Force Base may or may not exist today depending how on Congressional and Senatorial military appropriations are allocated
- Roth IRA could be a figment of our imagination.
- V.P. Biden could have never existed and become nothing more than a school teacher in Scranton, PA.
- Would a 50th alternative State been selected?
- No lucrative corporate tax laws to be established in DE. Some other state would have figured out the benefit to being the official P.O. Box for corporations.
- Scrapple would still be a regional delicacy.
- I-95 would probably not have gone through Wilmington and the Susquehanna Bridge not been built with I-95 running farther north.
All this would be butterflied away.
Not that this is at all likely.
Yep. And Delmarva as a stand-alone state(Lenape, maybe?), could change some things, depending on the circumstances afterwards.
Not necessarily, though. I mean, it very well could be, of course, but it's not totally inevitable.
"One fewer slave state in Congress."
Excellent point! So this will butterfly away either Maine or Vermont.
These days, very little, save some some solidly Democratic members of Congress. Delaware has spent most of the last 70 years as a glorified Philadelphia suburb and tax haven.
Make that "Delaware north of the canal" and not even all of that.These days, very little, save some some solidly Democratic members of Congress. Delaware has spent most of the last 70 years as a glorified Philadelphia suburb and tax haven.
And don't forget the area known as "the wedge" in later years, a sort-of-triangular parcel of land between the northeast corner of Maryland and the arc of the state line between Pennsylvania and Delaware. It was in dispute for years as to who owned it--and as a result neither PA nor DE really enforced the law there. It was kind of no-man's-land until it was awarded to DE, and an east/west boundary extended east from the northeastern corner of MD to intersect the arc.The counties on the Delaware were not administered conventionally. Rather, "Pennsylvania and the counties on the Delaware" could arguably have been described as a loose (and unsuccessful) confederation. Averting that arrangement might be the way to get ongoing union, or perhaps a more functional confederal relationship could have lasted or even expanded.
"One fewer slave state in Congress."
Excellent point! So this will butterfly away either Maine or Vermont.
It would be quite different, the butterflies would long have caught up. It would be a different world.
One of Delaware's representative to the Constitutional Convention was vociferous on the small states side and a leader for equal representation.