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All melted down in 1981. Look up hunt+brothers+silver. Sorry. I was thinking about the massive quantities of aluminium which surround us today, in our everyday lives. A kitchen might contain a fortune in aluminium - from a DT's point of view. This is the last gasp of the bi-metallic era, with...

First they have to set up the mines, then build roads (canals! :)) to ports, and possibly the ports themselves. Also - build smelters in 'Bama, or powerplants (hydro?) AND smelters elsewhere. Need I mention machines to make machines to make smelting equipment? Machines to make machines to make...

Once alumium from Alabama floods the market, the price will nosedive :) My asspull guesstimate is that Alabama would need 30-60 tons of gold if it wished to support a currency of its own. I admit that I'm stuck mentally in the low figures for gold - hence I may very well underestimate how much...

@Bear Ribs Thank you for the knowledge! I went back to the OP story posts - I finally understood that the ISOT released two floods - one up the river into eastern Tennessee (Lake Guntersville "collapses" as there is no upstream water holding it back), another downstream into western (Lake...

Maybe I am chanelling Europe - but AFAIK the UT livestock raised in industrial farm-factories will not survive open sky ranches. As an EFL person in livestock I include chickens, turkeys, pigs, cattle, sheep etc. (not sure if this is corect English usage) - hence YMMV depending upon species in...

I expect that most of the livestock will have to be slaughtered sooner than later due to lack of out-of-State feed.

@Agent23 - true, but there still will be a transition period where supply sources need to be recreated. In many cases - built from scratch. In some cases this taking years.

You remember correctly :) I'd bet good money that not enough Steel! Good question. Regardless of self-sufficiency or not, farming (I include raising animals here) will be severely disrupted by loss of suppliers of feed, fertilizer etc. Food rationing might be imposed, together with Martial...

A quick top of mind - at this point in time paper money existed, but it was convertible to gold AND silver. ADDED LATER. There had to be a substantial specie reserve for paper money (25%?). Alabama could honour UT paper money and coins internally, for a time. Then - if it stays in the USA - it...

A State which, where fugitive slaves are concerned, will tell the Federal Gov't, the Supreme Court and Slave States too, in a nice southern drawl, "fuck off yall, we ain't giving them back".

Can the DT USA accommodate UT Alabama with its outlandish Laws and customs? While on the subject of marriage - interracial marriages are banned all over the place, North and West included. Even if some hardcore worshippers of the "good old days" leave AND do not come back to their modcons, I'd...

Soo ... good for them? If that's the will of population ... Should be a State matter anyway. Thread tax - such a move would minimally lessen the utter disgust and horror at their mores among the Downtimers. So, good PR.

Awash in oil and refining capacity - good for Alabama!

OTL US House of Representatives (going by Wiki): 1858 House (based on 1850 census figures) - 238 ACW and all that :) 1868 House (based on 1860 census figures) - 243 In thus AU prolly more than 243 due to Alabama's population. EDIT: Numbers corrected, I misread the wiki There will be...

How does Alabama stand as to petroleum extraction and rafination? It could be hurting lots in this regard. On the plus side - Alabama probably is the largest maker of steel in the world. Helps in extending railroads outside its borders. Having railroads in neighbouring States in 5'/1524mm track...