WI: VP Aaron Burr's plan for secession had gained further steam?

What if Aaron Burr's plan to create a new nation had gone ahead further than it did OTL? How would the resulting war of secession have turned out? What would his 'country' have been called had it worked? What would the long-term and short term aftermath be like?
 
I think part of the problem with the Burr Conspiracy is that no one really knew what the plan was. I've read that the target was New Orleans or Texas. I think most people will agree something shady was happening (remember Zebulon Pike's expedition was rumored to be a scouting trip for Wilkinson). Wilkinson himself was an outright traitor. IMHO something was being planned, I just don't know what.

Whatever Burr had planned, Jefferson was not going to take it lying down. Would be curious to see what effect it would have on electoral politics, since this would go way beyond the Hartford convention.
 
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