WI Succesful Burr

WI Aaron Burr was successful in establishing his own nation in the Louisiana Territory assuming British support as he hoped for
What would North America look like today?
What sort of government would he have started?
How would other react and so on?
 
Firstly, it's an open question if he could get the help. But, let's say he does. Knowing Burr, it would've been a dictatorship, pure and simple, in republican clothing. The US will be VERY unhappy with his little private empire's existence, and so it might not last longer than a decade or so.
 
Burr was against it, but in the area he was in, it wouldn't surprise me if it still existed in some form.

My thought was that if slavery were forbidden there, the Southern states would have been less keen to acquire it. As the Federalist in New England were against acquiring it for other reasons, that could make annexation a much harder sell.
 
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