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The southern sphere has Alabama's steel production facility, the largest in the US.

I wonder if it would be faster to build handysize tankers rather than build roads from the south to the east bloc? Though since the the shipyard is in the east bloc they'd have to build said tankers before they run out of stored fuel so unless somebody made the exact right move it may not work...

As you say yourself, said electronics won't last that long. There's also the issue that civilian electronics don't hold up well to the kind of abuse military equipment requires. Now some should keep working longer than others, but which ones? Do you want to be constantly swapping out old cell...

First, this wasn't about Freedmen, I was directly responding to your claim that the US wouldn't annex any more territory because Catholics in Quebec and Mexico would form a Catholic voting bloc. Second, you're presuming said African's don't want to go back. Lincoln's plan to send the...

You're taking a modernist perspective on the past. Voting blocs as you're thinking of them hardly existed and the patterns were very different than anything we'd see today, with voters being far more focused on local elections and the national-level political parties being far weaker than they...

Actually I can see that happening pretty easily. As I said before, I suspect the military is going to follow Abe Lincoln's direction, as he is the duly elected President of the United States (I expect Lincoln would get some letters strongly advising him to take several future leaders as cabinet...

Most of those states are heavily agricultural and Oklahoma is the fifth highest oil-production state in the US, it can feed 11 states all by itself and it refines it's own oil. Additionally, stocks of wild fish will be significantly less overfished than they are today so the coastal states will...

Military these states are fine, there's several dozen bases in every branch between them. The most important are going to be Tinker in Oklahoma, one of the largest Air Force Bases; Gulfport in Mississippi which is home to the Seabees, the main naval construction group; and Portsmouth Naval...