Editor says, what if Winston Churchill had been raised on the other side of the Atlantic by his American mother? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).

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Scott Palter commented on 2010-01-25 02:36:53 ~ Several unlikely bits in here. First the pressure for dominion status of some sort would have mounted FAR earlier. Indeed it is difficult to imagine the period 1789-1815 without such a push. Second a world that had avodied major war until 1939 is quite unlikely to have one in the form you suggest. AH would have imploded before that. The Ottomans would either be a major power or have imploded. Spain would never fight every seapower in the Med. Now Churchill as PM of a united Anglosphere is possible but the POD is 1940.

Eric Oppen commented on 2010-01-25 06:39:04 ~ Would the UDA's capital be in Georgetown, or someplace else?

Eric Lipps commented on 2010-01-25 14:08:07 ~ In order: (1) In the timeline I envision, the American Revolution collapsed early when the Continental Congress voted down the Declaration of Independence after Jefferson refused to excise a passage condemning the African slave trade, infuriating Southern delegates (this is the POD--in our history, Jefferson gave in). Tightened British control followed for some time. Jefferson and others of the Founding Fathers died in exile (Washington was captured and executed). A second attempted revolution occurred in the 1830s when Britain outlawed slavery throughout the Empire; this one lasted longer, due to ideological fervor on the part of the slaveholding states, but was also defeated. (2) Pressure for dominion status (or outright independence) is present from early on, but is not politically respectable until decades after the second American revolt. (3) Ottoman Turkey IS a major power in this TL. By the 1940s it was no longer "the sick man of Europe" but had been revitalized, at least part by the discovery of vast oil deposits in its Persian Gulf holdings. (4) One would have thought that a world which had avoided a major war since 1815 would not have erupted into global conflict in 1914 following the assasination of an Austrian archduke, yet that's just what happened in our history. In this ATL, it simply took another generation (perhaps because without the example provided by earlier successful revolutions Serbian nationalism was a less potent force, so that Ferdinand's assassination ddn't happen). (5) Spain, in this timeline, is considerably more powerful than in our history, having held onto its New World colonies far longer. Besides, who says it would have been fighting alone? Turkey, for instance, would have had its own interests, and ships, in the Mediterranean.

Andrew Beane commented on 2010-01-25 18:45:12 ~ We JUST discussed the possibility of the Declaration of Independence being rejected in my Multi-cultural society class for the very reason you mentioned. This storyhas very strong historical roots and is very well thought-out.