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Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
... might I recommend reading some of the alternate history book series by Harry Turtledove?
http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/turtledove.html
What if the South was armed with AK-47 rifles instead of single-shot rifles? The Guns of the South involves a pair of far-right-wing South African arms traders that travel back in time to 1862, where they offer to arm the Army of Northern Virginia wit weapons nearly 100 years ahead of their time. Needless to say, the Union gets the living sh*t kicked out of them with the South's new technological advancement.
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"We'd be staying at the NotaHilton!"
Seriously, if British dental care reflects what National Health Care provides, I could never get behind it.
As for the government, I honestly think that, by now, we would have teamed up with Canada and held a second War of Independence.
An interesting bit that I learned in college was that, in the Spanish-held New World, any colonists originally had to be of pure Spanish noble stock, Roman Catholic, and male. For the English-held New World, one originally had to be a religious dissident, a felon, an adventurer, or a debtor.
With that type of stock, we still would have broken away sooner or later, and still maintained the kinship-type ties that we currently have.