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What if Texas Remained Independent?
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2024
- Texas had a brief flirt with nationhood back in the 19th century, and ever since have been a distinct culture inside the US. What if Texas remained independent and never joined the United States? Here is a few scenarios.
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Howdy Izz
if Texas remained independet, they would have never sold Whataburger to Chicago...
Bravo
Don't bring back the memories 😥😥😥
NOTHING GOOD COMES FROM CHICAGO LOOK AT UNITED AIRLINES .
facks!
Yesssssś
80 percent of viewers are Texans
I'm part of the 20%, New Mexican.... Not a Mexican, just making that clear
Yep😂 San Antonio is where I'm from
Also got family is El Paso and new Mexico
Yes
Soaked Binkie it’s true
Not me. I was considering moving to Texas. Then I saw how californicated it had become.
I aint talking bout austin neither.
" *naw* "
-Texas
" *texas pls* "
- united states
@@blobydude420productions4 *nu*
-texas
“ *LET HIM GOOOOOO* ”
“Im seceding y’all”
-Texas, literally 15 years after being annexed by the USA
Best quote ever.
"Wanna join?"
"naw"
"Texas pls"
😂😂👌
"I K N O W Y O U G O T O I L Y O U L I T T L E
S H I T ."
@@grub7470 💀
Cool stolen comment
What if Russia never sold Alaska to the US.
Pinta Dubbs ummm russia would have the gold and frozen oil there
Harsha Ayyagary mutha Russia ain't no bitch we would have slaughtered them
the brits couldnt even stop a revolution try RUSSIA now
Britain could have won the revolution. However the war with the French was seen as more important. Also if their had been a war for Alaska the U.K. would have won easilly. Keeping in mind Britain was by far he most powerful nation in the world for most of the 19th century.
Sam Chiverton agreed Britain ( I'm a Brit didn't seem so nessessay
Murica: Hey Texas wanna join?
Texas: Naw
Murica: *Texas pls*
US Government Sees Texas independent: "Oh well".
Advisor: "There's oil".
"US Government: "Where can I invade?"
Texas after signing the annexation treaty:
Hey America, sign this! (Pulls down his pants and shows America the dark side of the moon)
The CIA, Probably (This is just some history) it was actually the Texans who continually begged the US to become a state and it took a decade because the Democrats didn't want Texas and the Republicans did, and basically Texas waited for a Republican president to be elected to become a state
The CIA, Probably. Mexico joins the chat*
"Please try this statehood", America said.
"No!" said Texas.
"Tryyyyy iiiiiit" America said.
"No," said Texas again, quieter this time.
And so the statehood was put into place, and all the rules that came with it.
Texas: we are independent and have oil !
U.S: Repeat that please?
We still save that for ourselves so fuck u trump
“I hate that countries use their own resources”
...We have oil!
Virus Texas Asked To Join The USA
@@OA23818 Hol up
Texas is a Republican state
Donald is a Republican
What if Hitler's dad pulled out?
Garrett Smith This is The beat comment but it was. made 2 years ago💀
There still would’ve been a possibility of pregnancy even with the pull out method.
Some other anti-semite would have taken over Germany. A competent one.
@@almadelalluvia how
What if hitler was accepted into art school
I love how the USA figure always has the big aviator sunglasses lol. Super Merican.
Diego Martinez Texas is the most murican state, at least when anyone says murica, they mean texas
Weeb of Your Nightmares really cause i always mean south dakota
Texas is like the America of America.
@@landoakechi9406 I always think Montana or the Dakotas.
I too learned what the sunglasses where called by playing GTA 5
Texas is such a proud state like we literally have the shape of our state in almost every yard and house and wave our flag along side the American one😂
And waffle maker
@@CanadianFan oh yes , how could forget
Because Texas is the greatest state. I don't care what anyone else says. We have an amazing economy, we have the ONLY ICBM assembly and disassembly plant in the US, and a major NASA center. Our grid is completely separate from the US grid, and we have so many guns every citizen alone could probably supply 1-10 soldiers. The immense pride and faith in this state, is unparalleled and the blood shed that would result from an invasion or crack down of this state is unfathomable. EDIT: Not to mention we have one of the most active ports in the US.
@@beretta8515 blue wave is coming. Calitards are coming.
@@beretta8515 so patriotic to Texas i always thought that an American was patriotic to all of U.S not just one part of it i guess theirs much culture in each state
I like how the U.S. uses aviator glasses, lol 😂🤣.
America fuck yeah!
Cause we're better than everyone else, and the aviators prove it, duh
@@jamesfinlinson5545 is that a joke
@@ungusbungus2486 nope, we built different.
@@accurategamer7085 I take it you like trump?
As a lifelong Texan, I'd like to say that Texas would have been fine as a nation, but I must accept reality. 😢
my friend it could still happen there is a movement in Texas called the Texan nationalist movement with 33 percent support from Texas and with its current growth rate we could see a free Texas in 20 years 10_15 if we luck out and the U.S pulls another stupid war like Iraq.
that and there is many geopolitical hints that even if the U.S is hostile to a Texan Republic after leaving peacefully the Russian Federation would support Texas
oh and we loose more being in the union then if we were our own nation so no wonder the movement is growing
@@thedoctorairsoft6813 Prepare to get your ass liberated BOI.
Guess you guys need some freedom.
@@thedoctorairsoft6813 Russian federation is fucking peace of shit. Say as russian...
I like that Texas is part of the USA
We need our big military
But the Texans rangers were always a force to fear
@@thedoctorairsoft6813 I hope it doesn’t happen
What if the moon landing was a failure? What if the astronauts died, or left behind...?
+LegalEagleLawbot They would've just tried again.
+Nicholas Strahl But they didn't die.
+LegalEagleLawbot they actually had a speech made up in case of that happening, you should read it, as it is a well written speech.
+Nicholas Strahl fail mission but win engineer skills
+Nicholas Strahl Apollo 13 wasn't a failure. We didn't lose anybody. It was actually a success in the fact that mission control and the astronauts were able to engineer a way home after damage.
Now I have lived in Texas my whole life and we have Texas history classes for full school years, 1 in 1st grade, 1 in 4th grade, and one in 7th grade, so I know very well that we would not have survived alone, but just for fun, here's a scenario where we did:
So after we won the Texas Revolution, we begin to boost our economy by adding more farms and cattle ranches and a few textile factories in Austin and San Antonio for more jobs. We begin to raise taxes to pay off the debt and through lots of trade in Galveston with European Nations we begin to slowly, but surely get the debt paid off. After the debt is payed off we have already declined annexation by the U.S. and begin to build up our military and soon declare war on Mexico. We succeed in taking our little country to the Pacific Ocean and soon later we discover oil. With this, we have loads of money and are able to become a fairly powerful nation in between the U.S. and Mexico. Eventually we abolish slavery and become a happy little Texas democracy. The end.
ahem
Dalton Miller I would rather it stick with a republic but still a good time line
Who read this in an southern accent?
Lol, you get so mad, calm down.
You do realize that in my original post, I said: "I know very well that we would not have survived alone, but just for fun, here's a scenario where we did."
Because you're making it sound like I'm talking about Texans as some superheroes that blow up Mexico and the U.S. and get super rich and become some amazing empire of the south. I never said any of that, I was just making up a story for fun. Chill, ok?
I live in texas, and we only had it for 4th and 7th grade
Bro, you're a genius at coming up with these scenarios. You put a lot of thought into the information you're putting out.
My teacher showed us this in history class.
Here's a list of 10 possible Alternate Scenarios.
1. What if Austria unified Germany?
2. What if the treaty of Versailles was exclusively based of Wilson's 14 points?
3. What if Japan converted to Catholicism after the shogunate falls to religious rebellion?
4. What if Richard Nixon won the 1960 Presidential election?
5. What if Abraham Lincoln was never assassinated and served both terms?
6. What if the Glorious Revolution never happened?
7. What if Hungary won their independence in the 1848 revolution?
8. What if Nationalist China won the civil war?
9. What if the Chinese Empire attempted colonization (Americas and Pacific)?
10. What if Pedro II was not overthrown and the Empire of Brazil still existed today?
Pretty boring topics for me
+poke dan It would be more of if Austria formed the German Empire not Nazi Germany
+Kaiser Chris Oh boy Brazil got fucked by the anti slaving law set by the Royal Navy
+Cappin Murica MURICA FUCK YEAH
+Kaiser Chris i admit all rather interesting ideas from notable turning points in history.
What if the Cuban missile crisis went hot?
Would the world end or eventually move on and if so, in what kind of condition?
The world would end. Society would be pushed in. Nukes launching everywhere and sich
+Jose Gonzalez such*
Fallout 4
+Connor Dunn pretty much
Nuclear winter, economic collapsed, high radiation levels, and mass death.
Thanks youtube for recommending me this in 2019 when I live in Colorado
I loved this video. Also the animation of the US with sunglasses towering over a mini Texas with a cowboy hat is somehow hilarious to me! 😂
Why does everyone think Texans are Cowboys
ed i know right, idiots, we aren't cowboys
Hollywood. :v
ed because Texas is literally the cattle state.
people make fun of my drawl lol
ed cuz they are?
What would have happened if Al Gore and became president instead of George W. Bush?
The world would be generally better.
+Reece Paszko HHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA LOL
Damn my grammar was foul
What the fuck you saying
Fuck i hate that guy he to cerial
USA: Hey, Texas! Wanna join?
Texas: Nah, we'll live.
Like a decade later
Texas: *PLLLEEEEEAAAAAAASE GIB MONIES!*
USA: I knew you were my long lost son!
👏😆
Great Video. Now I am curious what the American Southwest would look like with it was under the control of an independent Texas. Damn man, talk about a Texan Empire. 😁👍
Alright let's think: Independent Texas needs aid. So it needs to appeal to a country that isn't the US. It appeals to a colonial empire, let's say Britain for the sake of choosing a nation. In exchange for foreign troops and epuipment Texas offers the only thing it has, which it doesn't even have: land. By going into a territorial war, it pays off it's war debt with Californian acres.
So we have 4 countries with land in the US: Russia, Texas, the US, and GB. Then the civil war occurs. For the sake of capitalism, Texas aids the South (or the southeast, rather), and gets a huge bonus check shipping goods across the Texan-Confederate border. Rather than being strangled by the Union, the Confederates are decently supplied. This turns the tide.
"Enlightened Warfare" becomes a bloody meat grinder. The civil war ends in an armistice. Now we have 5 countries.
New York, also benefitting heavily from trading with both sides, also secedes. 6...
Rather than being one massive powerhouse, the US is now New Europe. Mexico and Texas will probably butt heads again, but this time the Texans get their hands on some sweet hand-me-downs from the civil war,,as well as some money to play with. Here, either Texas or Mexico will come out on top, with Texas trying to get as much land as possible to put itself on a reliant footing.
The gold rush sees a huge boom in immigration. Britian and Texas alike are shitting themselves. Silicon Valley is discovered. Texas, Two-Three times its size now, is rolling in the natural resources. It becomes a serious competitor to even the Northern States.
OIL!
MORE OIL!
SO MUCH F***ING OIL!
At this point Texan Imperialism in the Caribbean might be feasible. It had a massive immigration wave from the gold rush, so manpower isn't an issue anymore. Rather than the Spanish American war, we have the Spanish-Texan war. This either ends with Texas getting dat land or texas backing off to a variety of reasons.
Alaska, what about Alaska? Texas, on impulse, buys the second Louisiana purchase (which is really what it was) rather than the US, because Texas has closer borders to Russia, its owners. More wealth for Texas. Esentially going from zero to hero, Texas becomes bigger than the North and South.
Germany contends for world power. The Zimmerman telegraph goes to Texas rather than Mexico, maybe even the Confederacy. Texas, nationalist as f*** due to its unparalleled success, chooses sides, and decides the First World War.
A: it will honor its close friendship with England and aid them
B: it will take a good long look at the resources that it gave away for basically nothing when California was still not fully explored.
A occurs, it actually is the war to end all wars. Good guy Texas essentially does what America did in WWI, a lot more aggressively. The treaty of Versailles occurs the same way, and essentially we kind of get back on track with regular history. WWII occurs, with the 3 americas doing their own things. Then the Cold War, with all of her armed conflicts we know and love today occuring.
B. A lot more fun happens. Germany wins! The assholes in Germany never take power. The holocaust never happens. Texas pretty much gets all of America, overshadowing the East coast and feasibly absorbing it. Hell, it may even take pieces of Canada, presumably East of Alaska. It probably invests in or walks into and takes the Panama Canal, capturing all of the independent sh---holes we call countries in Central America.
Japan also gets a piece of the action, as Russia will be weakened by the Revolution.
Europe is united, Japan satisfies it's need for land and resources, and the Lone Star State becomes the 75 United States of America.
From division actually comes unity through aggression. The world has much fewer countries. Countries like Haiti aren't. Expansionism becomes practice, not debated concept. Rather than 2 major world powers, we have 3, possibly 4: The UST, the USE, The Japanese Empire, and, presuming it didn't get wiped by Germany, the strong but wounded USSR.
Can't really think of anything feasible at this point, because I am going after feasibility here. What would happen between 3 world powers that are stronger than any known country today that are clearly allies (I'm pretty sure Russia is just screwed, no chance in hell that it will exist long under communism between 2 Imperialist nations)?
A border dispute takes place, and two allies go to war, dragging the other one way or the other? The nuclear bombs are used in a combat zone?
The most likely event would be an even more complex Cold War, followed by either peace or total nuclear annihilation.
That's a pretty good idea for a book....
Goddamnit it took you so long to write that and it only got 13 likes, I feel bad for some reason lmao.
Joseph Stalin probably because everything I wrote was kinda full of shit
Texas had no power to change the outcome of the Civil War, the United States had still far more soldiers and more economic power. No chance it would've lost the war just because Texas was independent.
they were aiding the confederates by giving them British troops and stopping the blockade. That would've been a huge difference.
What if the Byzantine Empire never fell when it did? Please!
Yeeeeeeesssssssss!!
+BeFlight Most likely scenario is that the crusade did not sack the city.
+BeFlight Then it will be considered that the the Roman empire never fell. The Byzantines would have the territory of all of the Ottoman Empire. They will not consider themselves as Byzantines anyway, they will consider themselves as Romans. Ottomans should be decimated in that alternate timeline for Byzantines to still become an Empire. The only reason why their empire fell is because they were far left behind in terms of Military technology, so in that timeline, their Military would have been so advance that they reclaimed their former territories and even conquer territories as far as Spain. But I doubt they can reclaim their Roman capital "Rome" as it is much harder to fight Western kingdoms, the war of the 4th century will still not be over, they still will consider the West as the Barbarians who conquered their Territories.
+BeFlight I fully back this
It probably won't happen unless you are a Patron supporter. It should be known UA-camrs love there Patron supporters more than the average watcher.
As a Texan, I love the idea of Texas being independent the idea of my home state being it’s own country again would be awesome. Gotta love alternative history, i wonder how life would be nowadays if Texas had kept it’s more Spanish and Mexican culture ingrained.
Man Cody's voice has really changed in the past 7 years.
We probably wouldn't have King of the Hill so that would suck.
Damnit Bobby!
I tell you whut.
PROOOOOOPPPPAAAAANNNNNEEEEE
maybe we could have an alternate universe king of the hill where they live on oklahoma or something
lol true
Trump's wall would be much shorter.
Hay que ser patriotas, México saldrá adelante en un futuro cercano!
Méjico mis pelotas
Agarrame que me caigo
PushButton I don't think trump would be president he would have been a liberal that hated Texas and the conservatives would have loved Texas
HA HA HA HA nice one.
"texas pls"
lmao
Here in Texas we have a whole year of learning about Texas history
Cody, you should check out the Empire on NationStates! It's really blooming now. There's even a map!
+Dylan Smith I have been so busy I haven't been there in a while. I'll go check it out!
+AlternateHistoryHub Can you make a video on the independence of european regions
+AlternateHistoryHub can you do a video on " what if the dark ages never happen"
+AlternateHistoryHub I hope you liked the map we chose for the biggest continent, and if you can remember, the one labelled Grovallis was based off of your video about Atlantis.
+EndErPuppy How desperate can one get lol
what if American took over Mexico after the very short Mexican-American war...
OttoVon AceMan no
BAMMM Source yes
México although is not a military power, it is nightmare to invade, even if the U.S. succeded in invading mexican territories it would never really control the region, guerilla wars would cause massive losses in personel and resources that would make the war as expensive if not more as the middle east campaigns, specially if China and Russia provide weapons, not to mention the international backlash the U.S. would suffer from Latin America and several other countries Mexico has friendly relations with
We wouldn't have to worry about the drug trade.
They could have but at the time Mexico had one of the best militaries and would have been hard to invade
at 1:40 america is like "dont mess with me or my child ever again"
Sky scraper: can fall in less that 10 years
Alamo: 300 years and still going strong.
So Texas is like the Quebec of the US?
Yeah, pretty much.
+FuzzyDalek Except Texas provides for the United States, the opposite of Québec. Québec is a damn leech that need to get the hell of Alberta and the rest of Western Canada.
Not really. That's implies that a significant portion of Texas' population favors independence, which isn't remotely the case. It also implies large cultural differences between Texas and the rest of the country, which again isn't really the case.
The Wizard Indeed.
yeah pretty much im a native Texan and there's a lot of Texans that still want to secede from the US hell last year 100,000 voted to secede but denied
video starts in 0:00 thank me later
Koopa Troopa World
2 years later, thanks dude
No way
Woah thx feller, he was talking too much I was just looking through the coments tryna find when it starts
Koopa Troopa World thanks
North side of USA: No! I don’t like it!
South: REEEEEE SLAVERY IS GOOD!
Texas: uhm, mr USA?
Allowing people under 13 to make UA-cam accounts was a mistake…
If I was Texas I would take Jaimaca, Cuba, and Haiti, Cayman Islands, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, and the Dominican Republic. (due to the Yucatan peninsula being a province/territory of Texas) *you would have _FULL_ control of the Caribbean, the only countries that would have a possibility to invade Texas for full control of the Caribbean is the US. I don't think Mexico would have the power to invade because they barely have a military.
Texas wanted to be a massive military giant like the US and wanted a massive land force, they wanted mass production of military vehicles. I say BY the time WWII would start they would at least have half the military power, (possibly over or below) of the US. Fleet carriers, escort carriers, battleships, Heavy Cruisers, Light Cruisers, destroyers would be mass produced including the air force and ground force military vehicles
If the United States sold the I-400 submarine to RoT I would copy the design and make my own class of future Aircraft Carrier Submarines (russia is proposing a design like it, look it up, its pretty dank)
Texas taking the Great Antilles and the Bahamas is an interesting idea, but then they would have had to fight both Britain and Spain at once. Anyway, I doubt if they wanted a huge population of darker and often Spanish speaking people in their country. Grant couldn't convince the US to annex the D.R. for just those racist reasons.
What if the Alamo defenders won the battle, and defeated Santa Anna would be interesting, and Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and Colonel Travis survived it.
Travis would be president!
that would be great
WE were 187 VS thousands. would be great in fantasy. However Sam Houston was Smart and let Santa Anna Chase his forces and he lost valuable men and Weapons, SAN JACINTO!!!
And you complain about immigrants and invasion, you fuckers got invited and backstabbed the country of Mexico, typical, don’t know why your proud of being backstabbers, like the confederate states. Keep being proud, we know history also and know what you guys so called patriots are.
Then Texans would have risen to be a real super power build on strength, not numbers.
What if I had a social life? Would I have a girlfriend? Would I be popular?
+Alexander Tinoco Naw, too implausible. (JK)
Andrew Hodge Lmao.
+Alexander Tinoco you would be like Liam Neeson, a kinda famous actor.
We can always hope, right?
You’re funny. Very good joke. Currently laughing. Lmfao
This shit hits different in February 2021 lol
What if the United States fought England over the 37 parallel back during expansionists United States
What if Constantinople never fell to the Turks/Ottomans?
What if the Tokugawa Shogunate won the civil war?
What if France won the French and Indian War?
+Connor Dunn What if france won the war in indochina?
Impossible! Byzantine was extremely weak, only a miracle or intervention by a superior country could've stopped the Ottoman invasion.
+Jose Rosas That's why he said what if
Holy Paladin Exactly, what I am saying is that IF Byzantine survived then miracle or foreign intervention would have happened.
Jose Rosas Constantinople would fall eventually. It was inevitable. But who captures Constantinople is important. Once the Ottomans captured Constantinople they cut off trade between Europe and Asia. This led to European colonialism.
I like the idea of Mexico and the union vs The confederacy
I like the idea of England and the Confederacy against the U.S. :P
I find that to be an impossibility as the Mexiancs had their hands full with the French during the time.
That actually kinda almost happened
The president of the Confederacy actually was trying to flee to Mexico after he lost so he could ask the president of Mexico for help defeating the union but he was actually killed when he was in Texas I beileve and he has gold with him to offer to Mexico but when he was killed the gold "magically disappeared"
Can you imagine if Mexico and the Confederacy joined forces and fought together that'll be so cool
@@anthonyeverhart4097 Um. Your narrative is a little off. President Davis was not killed. He died at home of old age a couple decades later. Nor is there any evidence he was planning on going to Mexico. He was caught in Georgia, probably on his way to Texas. There are rumors of a missing Confederate treasury, but they are just that: rumors. However, your basic idea is plausible. Mexico was indeed sympathetic to the Confederacy and was in fact one of the few countries in the world to recognize it diplomatically. Southern cotton was shipped south to Mexico for export in order to avoid the Union blockade.
Cannonfire01 what if all the continent fought each other at the time?
I am proud to be a Full Blooded Texan!
@@mikewest712 well he said full blooded taxan soo
Yeshua is my master Hahahahahaha California Bad Texas Good
Me too *Dixies land in the back ground*
I am proud to be in Texas with 2 navy legends
This was brought up in one of the “What If? Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been” I think it was the 2nd book but not sure but was a great read and love the vid
What if the Soviet Union remained neutral in WWII or joined Axis?
+The Adamant Why the hell would the soviet union join the Anti-Comintern pact?
+ju44 I'm sure fascist ideology would mold to accept communists and their ideology of an egalitarian society, combined with their strong nationalist identities.
Douglas Aranda Okay, but still, he wanted the living space for the Germans.
+Douglas Aranda Thats wrong,he didn't hate all them groups.
You are a certain dumbass cause they were already an axis force and were allied with Germany under the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. They invaded half of Poland,parts of Finland,Romania,Lithuania,Latvia,and Estonia but was broken with operation Barbarossa.also it's hard to remain neutral while you are being invaded
I've been out of High School for a few years (cant afford college) and history has always been my favorite. Getting time off of work and just watching and learning about different alternatives that could have very much happened intrigues me very much. So I just want to say thank you to all of you at AlternateHistoryHub for doing what you do and allowing anyone to learn of it.
lol I had to right a paper on what if Texas never joined the Union this video helped me a lot thank you Cody !
Texas: Come and Take It.
Everyone else: Why are they so crazy.
Texas: Why are y'all b!tches
@ I'm offended. Texas is the best. The best land. No land trumps this land. We have all but one biome in this lovely land. Yes, we have rainforests and swamps, I was surprised too.
@@Error403HRD I've only driven across Texas vial Dallas and El Paso. That was the ugliest countryside I've ever seen in my life. I guess love is blind.
@ Well no shit, it's the southern, eastern, and central areas that are prettiest, and I'm not inclined to believe you because I can safely say that Colorado, New Mexico, Louisiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee are far uglier, especially Colorado, New Mexico, and Louisiana. And West Texas is basically all desert, basins, mountains, and dry plains, so of course it ain't gonna be the prettiest thing in the world, and the Dallas area is not as horrible as you make it out to be. I think you can go right outside and drive a little bit and see things uglier than most things you saw here. Probably an unreasonable bias against Texas, something I see really often in people from New Mexico, California, New York, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas. And a few other southern states.
@ Um, I've driven through those deserts multiple times, they look fine, I think you dislike it due to the immense amount of brush that grows on the deserts, which is odd, but it gives the few animals there much to eat, and besides, have you seen the cacti? They're awesome! Do you just prefer the barren landscapes of sand? I like the brush, and Texas isn't the only state with that "ugly" sage, we do border New Mexico, and they don't have as much, but they still have plenty. I don't see the problem, would you rather have loose, endless sandhills that cause sandstorms at the lightest wind? I'll keep my brush if it means not driving through a damned sandstorm everytime I pass by.
proud to be a Texan
proud to be a Californian from South Central L.A
+CornHubPremium i have seen things that you haven't experienced kid.
+CornHubPremium I agree
Same
same
As a native Texan, I'd love to say that we, as a nation, would have thrived, but this just isn't the case. I really enjoyed hearing your ideas on the topic, even if you did say Texas wasn't strong enough.
Reminds me of the novel, "The Difference Engine" by W Gibson. There's an independent Texas.
“Texas pls”
Lol xD
as a Texan, yes. Many of us want to be independent again. There are many local groups that push for it, forming governments that could expand in the event of a split (like small local groups who appoint a treasurer for the small group, leaders, defense planners, they stockpile silver, gold, guns, and ammo lol).
Love your videos bud. very interesting and thought provoking stuff.
also a great way to teach history :)
Victoria II by Paradox gives a good sense of just how overmatched Texas was.
i live in texas and and your history information is spot on
Here's a suggestion, what if France had control of Mexico instead of Spain?
+elcucuy feo Probably will speak some type of Creole for one, as the base of Creole is French and Spanish along w/ some native island languages.
+elcucuy feo Would become Independent after after being embargoed and blockaded by the Royal Navy in the many wars that the French had with the British Empire.
Then Cinco de Mayo wouldn't exist.
+Primarch Alpharius note that france ruled the area that today is canada and would probably make a lot better in the war vs the britts with their geografic advantage,
Mrgravitymario
There was many big reasons why the french sucked at north American colonies.
Texas has a strong identity, I wish my Minnesota had a similar identity. So much of the U.S. is a pantywaisted pushover, Texas stands strong on issues, who wouldn't want a state like that?
amen
Dang I’ve lived in Texas since I was born and I never knew this
5:45
In this scenario, the CSA would win. Mexico delcaring war on the CSA would bring France to the Confederates side. and with France joining it, so would the British. And this would certainly cuase the US and Mexico to lose
What is this the ww1 prequel?
Britain wouldn’t joint the war like you said, since they didn’t invade Mexico like France did, they retreated together with Spain
@Helmet Guy
I'll have disagree with you. Without the Mexican American war, Mexico might not fall into their own civil war which led to both sides being in debt to Europe which led to France invading Mexico in our world. The Mexican army might be in a stronger position without the Mexican American war and if France did side with the Confederates, Britain would have most likely sided with the Union (for a number of reasons: alternative source of cotton, Canada, not wanting France to gain influence, etc) turning the US civil war into a proxy war. Also France would eventually have to deal with Prussia like in our timeline and they couldn't hold on to a severely weakend Mexico also at the same time.
i like how the united states always has sun glasses
What if the United States chose to annex Japan after World War II?
+Dillon Blair
Agreed. As apalling and reprehensible as was using nuclear weapons, after having to do it a second time, because one wasnt enough to clarify the situation, Truman should have hit a 3rd target and said 'Now, youll surrender when we allow it'. I think that would make an interesting alternate history - how would that have shaped post war relations and the Cold War?
+Dillon Blair how about 2 more?
+Dillon Blair Racist. Japanese industries probably make more than 50% of all electronics, therefore, without Japan the western world woudn't be the same.
+Dillon Blair Well, if I'm being honest, whites caused most of the racial problems.
+Dillon Blair Slavery was the main problem. Our world would most likely be more advanced if slavery hadn't been invented and there wasn't an entire war around it. By the way, if the Japanese got exterminated in WW2 I bet you you wouldn't be right here typing on your phone/computer.
I am just glad our Texan brothers stand with us. Its one of THE most iconic part of America and super pro American. For that I salute you.
Great explation .
What if California remained Independent?
They would have a hideous flag.
Avuncular Mayonnaise That is true
a place with no guns and water and femi hippies walking everywhere.
+111q222p333m444z Do you fully understand what nuking California would do to the environment and the people living near the area??? Or are you just a fucking dumbass who skipped out on school?
HAHAHA how ironic
Wow this channel is so cool
*_T E X I T_*
Thank you for helping with homework..
Please do a video on "What if the Republic of California became a country and did not join the United States.
Zachary ALT California would last some time due to the foundation of gold, however the population at the time for California was really really low. and California lacks oil and cattle.
so estimation - 2-4 years.
California doesn’t lack cattle. All the rural areas in California are literally held up by agriculture.
What if the Ottoman Empire never fell?
+KekBait HEIL LEAFY
+Cesar Perez You should ask the Great Powers of 1820s.
Or read a bit of history.
The ottoman empire fell the same way every empire falls.
DECADENCE!. Corruption, high taxation on subjugated people, interior revolutions and so on.
So, the only way would be for it to be reformed into a modern state, that actually did happen, and this is what we today call Turkey.
+Cesar Perez saudis would never sell Palestine , Jews will live in harmony with muslims in jerusalem , north africa will never be colonised , persia will remain weak as it should be europe and russia would be weaker because of the expansion of the ottomans .
+Aleks Gorlik Today most of the chirsitans think turks did a genocide against other nations in ww1, well thats a big lie, turks only fight agains other invader groups to save their land.
In ww1 ottoman empire join germans and they lose the war. France ,italy ,britain and many other ww1 winners invade the ottoman lands.
There was a many nations living under the ottoman empire like armenians,greeks ,kurs and others, wants independence so they claim ottoman lands for their new independent states, they do that with violance against local turkish people, so turks do a armed resistance in anatolia against big invaders and these groups.Here you can read the full story en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_War_of_Independence today christian nations call these wars a genocide, maked by turks, this is just a propoganda, but you are right about those discriminating tax laws.
+kurufasulye pilav the Armenian genocide is a fact, not propaganda. Stop lying!
I'm from Texas also who is watching
In 2017!
Ive gone so down in the comments i found a person from two thousen seventeen,
2019
Elizabeth same
2020
I have proposition :"What if operation valkyrie manage?"
Speaking as a Texan, I've never met anyone who actually wants independence. As Albus Dumbledore so wisely said, "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided". It's a shame Ireland feels differently.
+Dylan Thompson *COUGH COUGH* *Scotland* *COUGH CHOUGH*... But yeah.... Korea could learn something too from that comment
+Gabe Newell Yeah, hopefully Scotland comes to its senses. And hopefully North Korea has a revolution. It's a shame because the South Koreans are such cool people.
Huh? Ireland North is British. They don't think of themselves as Irish Catholics. And the Republic certainly doesn't want the British-minded brought in kicking & screaming. One island, one Ireland only works when all Irish are agreed. There's more hope for a united Palestine than a united Ireland. Sad, really.
There’s a lot more to the Northern Irish Conflict. There are two distinct ethnic groups, one of whom abhors the thought of being Annexed by the ROI. To force Ulster into a Union with Ireland would simply cause the troubles, except in reverse.
Frankly, I believe in breaking up large countries as much as possible for the sake of liberty. And to that point, I think a decentralised and Independent Ulster may be the best solution.
What part of Texas you live? I live in Central Texas and everybody here including cops and local officials want to leave the us lol.
wanna join ?
naw
texas pls
that part made me laugh
Apparently this almost happened a couple years ago, as Texans voted to secede and it was actually going through. Until Gov. Abbot blocked it, and idk if it’s true or not but we joined as a country with an extra 77.6 million acres and I think if we do secede we get all that back.
Wow
This was uploaded on my birthday
I've been seeing several "Texit" bumper stickers here in Texas haha. I think it's hilarious but even as a die hard Texan I know us leaving the USA would be a very poor decision economically and culturally.
Jarrellm10 I don't think that the culture would change in a lot of places considering if we were to secede we wouldn't have a good border set up for the current state lines considering there are not that many natural boundaries but I would think it would be fairly easy to move from the US and texas
Go Texit! #yeahIknow #dontruinmydreams
I am a proud Texan
Well actually if Texas left, its economy would be around the same size as France. So you'd be able to survive.
Economically, Texas might be better off without the failing economic policies of the US. On it's own, Texas has the 12th largest economy in the world.
here in canada we have that but with quebec its an old ww2 era thing no one really wants it but its a fun joke
Hurrah! Hurrah!
Hurrah for the bonnie blue flag that bares the single star!!!!
I am a brother peacemaker.
This litteraly summed my year in Texas history
Im a texan, my family as far back as i know were all born and raised in texas and everyone i know (family or otherwise) who also fits that description has the general idea that our headstrong and stubborn spirit would have somehow made us push through had we not became a state
My family has been in Texas since the early 1830s when Texas was still part of Mexico and I think I can safely say, "TEXAS WILL RISE AGAIN"
+Jon B Then eventually fall.
+JBroAC shhhhhh be silent
+Jon B You Texan rebels got lucky Sherman didn't burn your homes to the ground! Most of his terror campaign occurred in the Carolinas!
+Christian Dauz Sherman didn't dare come near Texas, he knew he could never defeat our vast plains, scarce population and many cows
You realize if Texas seceded, you wouldn't be Americans anymore, right?
I've got a good idea for a video, how about you do one about what would happen if the United States split apart and every state became its own country
I always thought america was suposed to be more like the free city states of ancient grecce, all sharing languaje, some culture and trade, but everyone would tend to their own politics and stuff, having the firsts amendments as a base for it. All of then would grow and colonize regions of north and west and be on constant war amongt them after certain time.
+Cesar Geney Canada and Mexico too. The official name is USM not Rep of Mexico.
Carter Mabe New York would be destroyed, Texas would last a while, alaska becomes absorbed by either canada or russia, California would go down first, and The economic structure of Mississippi, would clasp within a year. Maine would be fine for about 4-5 years, Hawaii would be called the "Kingdom of Hawaii".
that would be the major parts of the "succession of all states" theory.
Skeleton Crew Either other countries will invade or they'll declare war on each other. Basically, nothing good.
Skeleton Crew 50 separate countries - now you're talking ...
I recommend you to my history teacher,he is really cool!
Sweet credits music!
What if gold was never discovered in California? (aka what if the gold rush never happened?)
Hawaii, Vermont, and California were also independent countries with their own governments
We had are own government for 25 days until we where annex by our glorious nation 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
dont forget New Hampshire
I prefer the style of these older videos, it had a certain charm to it.
the relationships between all the states, even Texas, is symbiotic, and what makes the US so strong
So if Texas became independent today, what would happen to Texans living in other US States?
im curious too
Then you would be American
They'd come back
Dual citizenship baby!!!
Prisoner swap for all the californians in dallas, houston, and austin
It would have been Mexico 2.0
+The muslim Atheist Much better El Gran Estado De Tejas would be better.
Jason Garcia I doubt. Se mucho sobre de historia de Texas, y yo decir Texas es no mucho pero Mexico 2.0
(Sorry for my bad Spanish, but Spanish is my 3rd language and I'm still learning it)
+The muslim Atheist Ehh.. It was ok. You're getting there. Try reading Spanish books and novels, it would probably help you learn the Language faster and better.
Eric Torres muchas gracias. voy a probar.
Wow! Who performs these alternative analyses? They're brilliant!
How about this one: What if Vermont had seceded over slavery prior to outbreak of the Civil War? Would there have been a mini-civil war?
This video must be especially popular in Texas
I’m form Texas and I love being in America but because I know Texans they probably would love to be alone
What if, JUST WHAT IFFFFF!!!!!!!! I picked the soup instead of the salad?
you would slurp instead of crunch. :)
AlternateHistoryHub is best Hub.
Why does the US always have the cool sun glasses