Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-24603022-20140301000024/@comment-7576024-20140305192249

I do not want to force you to change your POD, but if you would like a better POD to reach your current conclusion, you could have Columbus sail for England. His brother, Bartholomew, attempted to convince Henry VII, but was captured by pirates along the way.

One result of his capture was that Henry VII lookd upon the younger Columbus as a poor beggar, and quickly turned the idea down.

If Columbus sailed for England AND the Commonwealth lasted longer, then Canada and the mainland US could've been under a common government, and the English could have taken care of the Aztecs, gaining Mexico.

With all of that achieved, you would have to change the names of your states to reflect English names (New Manchester, New Oxford, New Essex, New Kent, etc.) as opposed to Spanish ones (like Sonora, Baja California, Yucatan, etc.), but you can probably drop the ASB tag in the process.