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Originally Posted by legendsport
I figured that the South would have been very happy with independence. I ceded them the border states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. I wavered on Kansas and ended up giving it to the North, but gave Indian Territory (Oklahoma) to the South. I also thought about giving the South New Mexico, but decided that, again, they'd probably have been satisfied to gain independence. I then figured that any Southern expansion would be directed into Latin America.
Originally I had thought of having the relations between Britain and the US be bad, with battles along the US-Canadian border, but I felt that the British would probably, from a political-cultural standpoint, be closer to the North than the South (because of slavery which wouldn't end in the CS til the 1880s), so I decided to downplay (at least for now) the whole US-Canada border dispute angle, though I did decide that Alaska would become a part of British Canada, since Seward would be out as Sec. of State after the Democrats won the White House in 1864.
Of course when WWI rolls around things might just get interesting....
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actually if I remmeber right (and that's all subject to interpretation) the British supported the South in the war as kind of a payback thing. Sadly I don't have referrences though.
I also wonder what was the states situation in 1865? Was the west largely settled and divided up into territories? if so I can see your point. if not I could see the SOuth wanting to expand it's reach to the pacific, at the very least grabbing southern california
