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Shooting from the hip, I'd guess that if Virginia hasn't pulled the trigger, and if this stops it from doing so, the rest will, if not come crawling back, then be dragged quickly and bloodlessly compared to OTL. If this happens too late to stop a shooting war with the CSA as we know it (minus...

That is an argument that would be possible to make, yes, but forcing four and a half million people into the representation of eight hundred thousand is pretty bullshit. The 1860 Census results weren't even published until April 1861 and the Act of Congress doing the actual reapportioning...

Interestingly, Alabama would now be the most populous state in the Union. Looking at Wikipedia, its population would far surpass 1860's #1, New York (3.88 million). Alabama would also have a higher percentage of the population of the United States than California has had recently, for...