What if it was the East Vs. the West instesd?

What if the Civil War wads instead of North Vs South, East Vs. West.

It would have hardly been a war at that point considering how sparsely the West was settled in comparison to the East

Why not just shatter the whole country while you're at it.

>What if the Civil War wads instead of North Vs South, East Vs. West.

ebin meme XD!!!!!

Nobody lived in the west, and I mean nobody. Nevada had only 6000 people in 1860, Utah only 40000, Nebraska only 30000.
Also this you're basically a brainlet

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At most there was Texas and California that were more populated but the rest was almost empty.
Unless there some sort of foreign support for breaking up along those lines or some sort of Mormon empire on steroids this would not happen in a normal 1860s context.

Like 2/3 of the population is on the eastern side of that line.

Today.

You're right. It was much more lopsided in 1860.

That line is the mighty Mississippi

No it isn't. Mississippi is entirely in the red part.

yeah, back then it was more like 100%

I know that west of the 100th meridian there’s ‘only’ a hundred million Americans (out of like 330m or whatever it is now)

Probably more like 80m.

>civil war
>between the colonies and a bunch of land that was unexplored, unclaimed, unpopulated land or was part of mexico
the mormons and natives are fucked

NYC alone had more people than most of those states combined.

>American geography skills

>What if the Civil war was the whole US vs less than 10.000 people?

This is why Americans should be banned from Veeky Forums

>Implying Americans would be that ignorant of the conditions of the West during that period when rootin' tootin' cowboy culture is so venerated in American popular culture
This is clearly the work of a S*moan.

>Great Lakes Republic
All it needs is control of lake Ontario and the Canadian coast and it would be perfect.

Cowboys were more of a post-war phenomena with the political vaccum left in the fall of the Confederacy and the large numbers of people uprooted and moving West for a fresh start. Hence why nearly 100% of Western films are set in the Reconstruction Era.

really makes u think

You're right, but that just underscores that Americans would still think of the West during the Civil War as sparsely populated wilderness. The conception of the West being a wild frontier to tame is utterly ingrained in the American psyche, I doubt an American wouldn't know about that.