All in good time, young padawan, we still have twenty years to cover. Tomorrow, I'll tackle both elections, the gold rush, butterflies worldwide, etc.
Texas the Great
- Thread starter DirtyCommie
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I always theorized that Texas would play the role of a friendly neutral to the South. They wouldn't get directly involved, but they'd let European arms and munitions come through Galveston and Southern cotton go out while profitting as the middle man.
Not to mention when/if this smaller south loses, Texas may witness a population boom as a lot of southerners(with their slaves) may head west rather than live under Reconstruction occupation.
So...van Buren was re-elected in '40 despite the national economy collapsing in '37 because of early and vigorous support for Texas? I'm not sure that's enough...I suppose we can say that a new Texas Bubble keeps things going long enough to get to the election, but Nicholas Biddle (director of the National Bank) was a psychotic piece of work and he's hard to get around. I can certainly see van B. supporting Texas this way, though - the benefits of American expansion without the pesky necessity of adding slave states, to his mind. (maybe we all got lucky with a sleeper PoD and someone shot Biddle in '36?)