User blog comment:GunsnadGlory/Washington ate a sandwich.../@comment-1630894-20120808010054

I do concede that there is a 50/50 chance that, in areas not effected by the POD directly, that the people will be more or less close enough to their state in OTL that it would be pointless to make a new character. With a 50% chance, such a thing would be plausible enough to occur (however, in areas affected by the POD, OTL people being born later would be tremendously unlikely). So unless the sandwich gave Washington food poisoning, it probably would not effect anything major.