Does that Hill have a formal name, I wonder? But yes that’s precisely where I would site Congress in such a scenario.Pretty much, yeah. And as much as I like the Art Museum, you could stick a Congress building on that hill and it'd still look nice.
BasicallySo the stairs that Rocky Climbed iOTL would end up as the location of the new meetinghouse for Congress iTTL?
So the least damaged Confederate states are Florida, North Carolina, and Louisiana, right? Will these states emerge as the most developed, populous and economically viable as time goes on, or will other factors place other states ahead of the pack?
Also will the capital remain Richmond? I've forgotten if it was mentioned.
I’d say this list by @naraht more or less ranks the most-least destroyed pretty ably.I'm not sure Arkansas has seen that much more devastation than these, all of the fighting there was in the last 6 months, and I don't think the author indicated that Little Rock had suffered anywhere near the devastation of South Carolina's cities, for example.
And unless the history of Air Conditioning is very different iTTL, Florida really hasn't developed much south of the Northern Tier, which the US did attack near the end of the war. (Orlando is a wide place in the road at this point, and Miami a wide place on a beach.)
My *personal head-canon* ranking of Confederate states by level of devastation at the end of the war. Kentucky is as far down the list as it isbecause the USA probably helped fix the western 3/4 just to use it as part of their supply grid in attacking Tennessee. If Texas had stayed in the Confederacy, *they* would have been one of the top dogs, there are areas that the US troops didn't get to that are larger than Georgia and I doubt the Texas Civil War saw the type of industrial War that was brought to places like Tennessee and Virginia. (The eastern front iOTL WWI didn't create any significant Zone Rouge areas because you rarely had multiple battles in the same place)
Most Devastated:
Tennessee
Georgia
South Carolina
Virginia
Kentucky
Alabama
Mississippi
Florida
Arkansas
Texas
North Carolina
Louisiana
Least Devastated
And NC being spared the worst of the war will definitely redound hugely to its benefit, long term.