BURNISHED ROWS OF STEEL: The Great North American War, 1861-

The thing to remember is the American South was not especially attractive to,poor and working class European immigrants in the antebellum era, for obvious reasons.

Slavery was the biggest deterrent, of course, but the lack of land in the South (as opposed to the north and west) for Europeans with ambitions of building farms in the US, and the lack of industrialized and growing cities in the South (exactly one of the ten largest US cities was in a rebel state in 1861) and it becomes even less attractive. The American south was stagnant, in more ways then one.

But yes, the the likely reactions of European-born southerners to the entry of the "ancient enemy" into such a conflict in 1862 should be considered. Same holds true to a degree for at least some of the Queen's subjects in British North America, of course. Lot of BNAers of Irish and French ancestry would presumably have a second thought about risking life or limb for the sassenach or les Anglais.

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Nope. Getting significant numbers of people to move TO the American South is a very recent phenomenon that requires A) the end of slavery; B) Democrats being elected to the presidency; and C) air-conditioning.

You know William T. Sherman's line about Texas, right?

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If I owned hell and Texas, I'd live in Hell and rent out Texas.

To everyone in the US but Texans.

Although to be fair, there are some of us who live or have lived in the Lone Star State who feel the same way, at times. There are some beautiful places and great people, but there's a fair amount of a whole lot of empty as well, physically and intellectually.

That being said, Austin remains weird (for Texas, at least) in the best ways, much of the Gulf Coast is achingly beautiful, and both the Hill Country and the Big Bend are lovely, in vastly different ways.

Like anywhere else, there are also places that are acquired tastes at best and some where one can understand why most young people can't wait to leave...

Janis Joplin and Port Arthur is not a new thing, of course, and was not even in the 1950s-60s.

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Another great update, it seems that the United States is being tested to it fullest.

Why was the war named the Anglo-American War and not the Great American War.

Does the United Kingdom send military hardware to the confederacy to bolster them.