Civil War

Well there is simply no corelation between parties over that period. Today's Republican Party is a far cry from the same party in 1860. Names may be the same but little else. I don't know what that has to do with religion. After all, the Confederacy had a major executive that was a Jew.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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Great Britian and Canada and the Confederacy would have re-evaluated the balance of North America and in addition to Texas, the south might have annexed Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Nevada; while Canada annexed North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Alaska.

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I don't believe non-slave states or states without much international trade capabilities would have become a part of the South. And California would have come along with Texas but soon secede from the South because of slavery issues. California would then pull on as their own country or become a part of another country. I am not sure if it would be for the Union though.I am totally unsure and uneducated about your Prince Albert issue.

Before you go too far down that path you need to research the issue of "Contracted Hire" which was approved by Mexico even before Texas became part of the US. You might want to look into that as well since it was probably the single biggest determining factor in the outcome of the war.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Is there a link that can take me to understanding contracted hire? and the Prince Albert thing, is there a link to that too. All I am getting is the present Prince Albert

None that I know of but I imagine there some out there. But I have faith, you'll find them and like serendipty, probably much more.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

I have to confess to never having been aware of the connection between Prince Albert and the American Civil War, but what I came across on the net seems to suggest the exact opposite of this.All the stuff I've found talks about him using his influence to prevent Britain going to war with the Union over the Trent incident - surely the outcomes you describe would have been the consequence of him dying earlier rather than later ?

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09/04/05 - Sharks attacked
30/04/05 - Wasps swatted
14/05/05 - More of the same ?

The big question is what the result would have been had he lived. There was a lot of pressure being placed on Queen Victoria to intervene. When he died Queen Victoria more less said that Albert was against it and so she was too. If he had lived, would she have maintained her position or been swayed by the pressure brought by the Government?As it was, Victoria pretty much simply terminated all discussion on the subject.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

I was not commenting on your scenario. I was simply pointing out an error in your description of how trading with the rest of the world worked during the civil war. Take it as it is.

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FOX has a pretty good system they have cooked up. 10 mil people watch the show on the network, FOX. Then 5 mil, different people, tune into FOX News to get outraged by it. I just hope that those good, God fearing people at FOX continue to battle those morally bankrupt people at FOX.
-- Lewis Black, The Daily Show

that's why they seceded. the south wasn't agrarian by choice. they wanted to develop industry, but the north limited them. the north forced their dependance.