Thanks David. I knew I was opening a speculative can of worms. You are probably right in the main, but settling the west would have been a messier picture. One thing would have been very different for me personally. My grandfather went to Montana from Texas on a cattle drive. He met my grandmother there and settled down. Without a defini…
Thanks David. I knew I was opening a speculative can of worms. You are probably right in the main, but settling the west would have been a messier picture. One thing would have been very different for me personally. My grandfather went to Montana from Texas on a cattle drive. He met my grandmother there and settled down. Without a definitive end to the Civil War, it’s possible that doesn’t happen. And then there’s the 20th century wars in Europe. It’s easy to imagine the Confederacy staying out of the first and aligning itself with the Axis powers in the second. Does the Normandy invasion happen without southerners in large numbers? I’m not well enough read here to go farther on this, topic but I can’t imagine a hostile southern neighbor would have left the US to develop as it did but just without the South.
Thanks David. I knew I was opening a speculative can of worms. You are probably right in the main, but settling the west would have been a messier picture. One thing would have been very different for me personally. My grandfather went to Montana from Texas on a cattle drive. He met my grandmother there and settled down. Without a definitive end to the Civil War, it’s possible that doesn’t happen. And then there’s the 20th century wars in Europe. It’s easy to imagine the Confederacy staying out of the first and aligning itself with the Axis powers in the second. Does the Normandy invasion happen without southerners in large numbers? I’m not well enough read here to go farther on this, topic but I can’t imagine a hostile southern neighbor would have left the US to develop as it did but just without the South.