WI New England sceceded from the United States?

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WI New England, where I live, sceceded from the United States? The War of 1812 was unpopular here. In 1815, Jonathan Pickering, and other prominent
New Englanders, all members of the Federalist Party, met in Hartford, Connecticut, to discuss sceceding from the United States, and rejoining Britain.
IOTL, it didn't work. The government broke it up and tried them for treason.
The Federalists never recovered from it and soon dissolved.
 
The support for the secession movement at the Hartford Convention has been grossly overstated. It was never a real possibility, despite the hopes of a few individuals at the assembly.

The government broke it up and tried them for treason.

No, they didn't. The convention met, submitted some rather ridiculous demands to Congress, and accomplished nothing as the war ended concurrently with the proposed constitutional amendments.
 
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