Other States in the Sea of Time

[Dan Goodman]

We've done South Carolina. What about taking various other states on the
eve of the US Civil War, and sending them back to the last interglacial?

New York State would have a farming boom, to replace food no longer
coming in from the Midwest.


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Dan Goodman

[Allen W. McDonnell]

"Dan Goodman" <dsg...@iphouse.com> wrote in message
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True as far as it goes, but the economy was to a large part based on the
importation/exportation/trans-shipment of goods. They don't need to produce
all that cloth for sale through out the rest of the USA. They also are
going to have a different border in the north west because at the time Lake
Eire was a river valley, not a lake. That mean the famous canal leads from
New York City to a river feeding over the Niagara escarpment and into
another river that eventually feeds into the Saint Lawrence river valley.
Both the Eire and Ontario lakes are now rivers so Rochester is a port on dry
land some miles from the Ontario river and Buffalo is just a river port
above the falls.

[Anthony Buckland]

What about Illinois? Plenty of food, and already a
great city on a navigable lake and with access to
the Mississippi. Admittedly, with lots of "railroads
to nowhere" (just like Germany), but with great
internal transport and the capacity of increasing
the railroads once the known natural resources of
neighboring area were tapped again.

[Allen W. McDonnell]

"Dan Goodman" <dsg...@iphouse.com> wrote in message
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What about states that would not have had major geological changes from
glaciation, say those south of the Ohio River where the glaciers never
reached? Northern states like Maine, Michigan and Minnesota were carved and
changed a lot by the ice sheets, southern portions of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, and Iowa should be pretty much the same in the Eeimen 125,000 ybp.
States like Missouri, Kansas and Colorado were only lightly touched by the
last glaciation, though the exact path of the Missouri and Mississippi
rivers would have been shifted in a lot of places. On the other hand most
of Nevada was under the Lake Bonneville/Great Salt Lake that covered most of
the state for a few thousand years depending on exactly when they are
shifted too.