WI - No American Civil War

bard32

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Since the Republican Party was largely descended from the Whig Party and it's members largely former Whigs, I don't see how you can say this. Lincoln was originally a Whig, as were all but one of the men considered for the 1860 Republican presidential nomination.



Actually, without the common bond of slaveholding, it's entirely possible that Arkansas, Missouri, Texas and perhaps Kentucky and Tennessee will see themselves as Western, not Southern states. And the West typically voted with the North when it came to tariffs and internal improvements.

For that matter, to afford compensated emancipation, the government will probably need to raise tariffs so I'd expect the South of TTL to be voting for high tariffs as well,



Or they may come earlier. After all, the recently freed blacks will be competing with poor whites for jobs and probably treated as badly as they were post-Civil War in OTL, if not worse.

Alternately, the conflict that occured in OTL over abolition may instead occur over black suffrage. As in OTL, this will be most popular in the states with the least number of blacks, and this issue could easily result in a north-south split of both the Whig and Democratics Parties as happened in OTL.

You left one out, David. How about 7. No New York Draft Riots?
 
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