JC> -=> Quoting Sondra Ball to Jim Casto <=-
JC> SB> River covered with an inpenetrable thick fog, that no white man could
  > SB> get through, so the Indian nations on the other side would be forever
  > SB> secure. Now, the question would have been how to succeed in creating
  > SB> that scenario.
JC> Interesting premise. The resourceful whiteman would probably go around 
he
  > fog and enter from the West Coast. (An unknown ocean didn't stop 
Columbus.)
Probably.  Of course we could create an inpenetrable fog on the Pacific
coast line too.
JC> SB> Actually, I think we did need all thirteen colonies working in unity
  > SB> to make the revolution succeed.  And I think that a series of small
  > SB> nations spread throughout the continent would have created a 
ituation
  > SB> like Europe has had for most of its existence: a constant onslaught 
f
  > SB> small and big wars.
JC> Wars which would still be going on, I'm afraid.
Yep!  I mean there are legal wars going on between states all the time.
If they were *nations*, they would be more than legal wars.
                     Sondra
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