13th March 2015, 2:20 PM
ABF, if I understand right, you're basically saying the differences in this alternate reality would go MUCH farther back then, to when the land itself was young, and therefor much more likely to have unimaginably huge consequences on exactly what people did and even what nations would form in early America, thus making such significant differences a bit hard to swallow in how small the changes in the rest of the nation are. I think I get that.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)