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Jerseyrules
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« on: January 29, 2012, 01:29:10 AM »

If the United States convinced Canada and the Carribean to join the union in the Revolutionary War, how would they vote politically?  Also, would there be more inventive to continue Manifest Destiny and take all Mexico (to maintain the balance of slave states and free states)?  How would said Mexican states vote?  Would this have changed the entire American political system, to more of a parliamentary system as in OTL commonwealth nations, or more anti federalist direction as nationalism surges? and might we see a President William Lyon Mackenzie King?
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« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2012, 09:05:46 AM »

Such an idea, while interesting, probably requires us to develop a full-fledged althist and voting patterns nowadays would depend on what direction history would have taken, how Canada would have been populated/developed and what its economy would have been. The US party system might not even exist in its present state as a result.

One thing is for sure, they wouldn't speak French in Quebec or a tiny minority would speak Louisiana-like pidgin French.
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« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2012, 05:26:56 PM »

I'll be doing a "King George Washington" thingy that has Canada as a part of the US.
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« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2012, 06:29:58 PM »

All of Canadian history as we know it is butterflied away, as is a good deal of U.S. history. You pretty much have a blank slate to work with.
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« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2012, 11:09:02 PM »

I'll be doing a "King George Washington" thingy that has Canada as a part of the US.

Look forward to it!
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Jerseyrules
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« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2012, 11:09:43 PM »

All of Canadian history as we know it is butterflied away, as is a good deal of U.S. history. You pretty much have a blank slate to work with.

Cool Cheesy.  Would be a huge endeavor though.
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« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2012, 11:11:29 PM »

I got to thinking when I read this TL, which I strongly recommend:

http://alternatehistory.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=92281
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« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2012, 11:11:49 PM »

I'll be doing a "King George Washington" thingy that has Canada as a part of the US.

Look forward to it!
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