Is America Really A Nation?

I've been looking at the alternate history wiki and came across the 13 Fallen Stars timeline which described what the political and geographic outlines would be if the 1787 Constitutional Convention failed and the former 13 rebellious colonies(New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia) agreed to dissolve the Articles of Confederation in favor of several less centralized and more independent republics.

What would the political situation be after 1788 and how would relations be? Why would it have been better for the Constitutional Convention to never be successful? For one, each of the colonies had separate cultures and attitudes.

Examples distinguishing the colonies would include issues of slavery, foreign policy, language, and religion. For example, New England was pro-British and has historically supported British causes while New Netherland and Virginia were anti-British. John Adams of New England was Pro-British and a Federalist, supporting the Northern interests of the New England states while Thomas Jefferson of Virginia was anti-British and pro-Revolutionary in his policies. Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Carolina would appear neutral but the first of these three mentioned would be anti-British while the last of the three would be pro-British.

The War of 1812 was a major indicator of which states supported British causes. New England states were upset with the U.S. Government's rivalry with the British since it would hurt the interests of New England. New England states even threatened to secede from the United States over this war. It was the Upper Southern States near Virginia that were at odds with the British.

Another issue is slavery. Massachusetts was the first of the former colonies to abolish slavery. New England would be the most anti-slavery American Republic as many abolitionists including Frederick Douglas, William Henry Garrison, David Henry Thorneau, and Harriet Beecher Stowe lived in New England. New Netherland and Pennsylvania were part of the anti-slavery crowd and the norther American Republics resisted efforts by the southern States to spread the legality of slavery. The Northern states even defied the Fugitive Slave Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1850. Who says states nullifying federal laws is racist? In fact, runaway slaves would have been safer and freer in the northern republics if not for the existence of the U.S. government.

Third issue is trade and the economy. The northern states were pro-merchant and industrial with Alexander Hamilton of New York favoring a more centralized government for protection of northern manufacturing industries. Thomas Jefferson by contrast favored agrarian interests as the southern states were agrarian. The American republics of Virginia and Carolina would be more agrarian and have high exports of cotton. Maryland would be the only republic not to unite with other states while managing to be both agrarian and industrial much like Pennsylvania. One of the causes for the American Civil War was economic as the Southern states felt threatened by the GOP's proposals to unfairly tax southern states in favor of northern manufacturing states. The southern states were pro-free trade while the northern states were protectionist. The American Civil War was caused by economic concerns, not slavery.

Culture was also a distinguishing factor as not all of the American states agreed on what American culture was. With independent American Republics, New England would be more like the British Isles and Ireland with French influences as New English culture would be influenced by Methodist and Catholic religions as well as bordering the Maritime provinces of British North America. New Netherland(union between New Jersey and New York) would base it's culture on both English and Dutch cultures with English and Dutch as official languages. Part of the full New Netherland(NJ & NY) would be first colonized by the Dutch colonial Empire. Pennsylvania would be influenced by more Germanic influences than Anglo as the southeastern and northernmost lands in Pennsylvania and Delaware respectively were part of the Swedish colony of New Sweden from 1638 to 1655 before being dominated by the Dutch. Pennsylvania actually has it's own language known as Pennsylvania Dutch. Unless I'm mistaken, New Netherland and Pennsylvania would be Dutch as well as English with Pennsylvania possibly being Swedish. Both New Netherland and Pennsylvania were prominently Protestant.

Maryland & Virginia would be the only former U.S. States not to unite with other states in forming an independent republic as Maryland had it's own republic. Maryland is considered to be the only state in which Roman Catholicism is the largest religion. Virginia formed it's own independent commonwealth republic but unlike Maryland, Virginia had larger territorial expansions that extended as far west as the Mississippi River, bordering Louisiana Territory. The Mason-Dixon line would establish the borders between Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Canada(United Britannic Commonwealth). Maryland and Virginia would be unitary states. Carolina would include the Deep South which included North & South Carolina plus Georgia. The Carolinian Confederacy would be considered the most conservative republic in North America and the most free trade friendly country as well.

As for countries formed in the 19th century, the final border disputes between the American Republics would be resolved by the Napoleonic Wars. Louisiana was a French colony and part of New France from the 17th century till 1763, when it came under Spanish occupation. Spanish occupation would end in 1801 with the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. Louisiana would become an independent republic in 1812. Louisiana's main culture would be based off that of French and Creole cultures.

As for Texas, the Southwest(California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, West Colorado, most of New Mexico, Far West Texas, Baja Califronia peninsula, Senora, and North Chihuahua), the Midwest north of Mason-Dixon, Canada, Alaska, and the Northwest; Texas would become a free and independent republic since 1836, the republics of Rio Grande and Yucatan would be formed in the early 1840's from their respective regions but out of the three new republics seceding from New Spain, Texas would be mostly English and Baptist while Rio Grande and Yucatan would retain the Hispanic and Roman Catholic roots of New Spain.

The Southwest mentioned in previous paragraph would form the present day Latin Republic of California. My opinion here would be that instead of Latin American nations becoming independent of Spanish Crown in the 1810's-1830's, they would become dominions with self-governing parliaments starting with the Latin American Revolutions of the 1820's. New Spain would be partitioned in 1848 due to the California Gold Rush in which New Spain would be divided into numerous dominions, especially California and Mexico.

The Midwestern US north of Mason-Dixon, Northwestern U.S., Canada, and Alaska would be part of the 1876 established United Britannic Commonwealth which would create a confederation based on the US Articles of Confederation. Dominions would overtime include Britain, Ireland, Acadia, Newfoundland, Canada, Borealia, Columbia, Patagonia, India(and Princely States), Natal, Australia, Westralia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Bahamas, Jamaica, Windward-Leeward Islands, Barbados, Trinidad along with protectorates of Hawaii and Maldives plus the numerous Crown Dependencies.

The Spanish-American War would actually be a series of revolutionary republican wars in Latin America lasting from 1885-1920's with Venezuela, New Granada, Ecuador, California, Cuba, Guatemala, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Mexico, and Santo Domingo becoming independent republics between 1885 to 1924.

My point being here is that the United States of America is as much of a nation as the Soviet Union and the European Union. The USSR dissolved peacefully due to independence of it's Soviet Socialist Republics and even then you could clearly see the USSR is less deceptive at passing itself off as a nation-state than the USA has.

Despite the USA starting out as a humble republic, the 1787 Constitution was truly a victory for big government federalists as it would eventually be misinterpreted to green light an imperialistic federal government which has since it's inception invoked aggressive wars to prevent states from seceding from the USA, plundered natural resources of sovereign lands, killed millions of innocents, controlled the entire monetary system via Federal Reserve, extorted trillions from incriminated people via IRS and income tax, accumulated over $17 trillion debt, passed a barrage of regulations crippling economic freedom such as New Deal, Great Society, and Obamanomics, and massive violations of civil liberties with a growing police state.

My point here is that the USA can no longer be a massive unified republic and still be prosperous and free. The Soviet Union declined and dissolved due to separatism. In fact some states have not legally been part of the USA since the 1860's and cannot be subject to U.S. jurisdiction and these states include that of the Confederate States of America. Plus, despite Thomas Jefferson being an ardent classical liberal, the Louisiana Purchase violated the U.S. Constitution and made the USA an empire. I realize the benefits the purchase provided the USA with but Louisiana would eventually lose it's true organic culture based on that of French and Creole cultures. Same goes for the Southwest known in my heart as California. California went from being a Roman Catholic, Conservative, Latin society during the early to mid 19th century to a Zionist controlled socialist puppet state in the 21st century. The degenerate cutlures of Hollywood and San Francisco would have never been tolerated in 19th century Hispanic California. If anyone thinks that California would just be part of Mexico, California had it's own culture and it's people were called Californios.

If the US Constitution was never ratified and the US states instead became independent republics, the numerous differences would have been better dissolved so this way no state(s) could use the federal or central government as a weapon to impose their agenda on other states. The best hope for America is for states to start seceding and for the $17 trillion debt empire to collapse, done with as little insurrection as possible. I think the former Confederate States of America is a great place to start cause it would void the forced annexation by the US that occurred in 1865.