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What Would America Be Like If We Lost The Revolutionary War? (Original Post) onehandle Jun 2014 OP
We would all have stiff upper lips. Agnosticsherbet Jun 2014 #1
Very nice. Makes me wanna drag out the alleged writing of John Cleese re: the Colonies reverting to freshwest Jun 2014 #2
wonder why he took a dig at iamthebandfanman Jun 2014 #3
An attempted funny commercial... Al Carroll Jun 2014 #4
If only that war was over... Moostache Jun 2014 #5
I consider it a stretch Cirque du So-What Jun 2014 #6
"Reconstruction" could have been hanging the traitors and handing their wealth and land to slaves. Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2014 #7
The slave owners were bought off... Al Carroll Jul 2014 #10
Fag would mean Unknown Beatle Jun 2014 #8
Hey, I have an idea. Let's petition to un-secede from England. tclambert Jun 2014 #9
Boner would be the Prime Minister instead of Speaker meow2u3 Jul 2014 #11

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
2. Very nice. Makes me wanna drag out the alleged writing of John Cleese re: the Colonies reverting to
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 10:18 PM
Jun 2014
Her Majesty's posssesion. Pretty good piece, it was. But I'd rather celebrate the Fourth of July than Guy Fawkes Day... Wowsers, dudes

Al Carroll

(113 posts)
4. An attempted funny commercial...
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 11:26 PM
Jun 2014

is not really a good source for althistory.

Basically we'd be a bigger Canada. Fewer wars, less gun violence and people dying from preventable diseases.

And slavery would have been abolished in the 1830s without a civil war.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
5. If only that war was over...
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 11:58 PM
Jun 2014
...without a civil war.


A civil war that is STILL being fought nearly 150 years later...the GOP and its neon-confederacy were the first ones to start mumbling about Secession back when Perry and Jindal thought they could out crazy each other, but the divisions since then have only deepened and show little to no signs of abatement.

Cirque du So-What

(25,811 posts)
6. I consider it a stretch
Sat Jun 28, 2014, 12:06 AM
Jun 2014

Last edited Sat Jun 28, 2014, 12:38 AM - Edit history (1)

to say that the southern 'colonies' would have voluntarily turned away from slavery as the bedrock of their economic system. In this alternative history exercise, I believe there still would have been a war if Mother England had attempted to end slavery.

Al Carroll

(113 posts)
10. The slave owners were bought off...
Wed Jul 2, 2014, 09:28 PM
Jul 2014

...by the British govt. That's why there was no revolt in the British empire when slavery ended. They were actually paid higher than market value.

meow2u3

(24,743 posts)
11. Boner would be the Prime Minister instead of Speaker
Wed Jul 2, 2014, 09:59 PM
Jul 2014

and the country would really go to hell in a handbasket.

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