Good read. Good thing the kooks here make an exception to American "Nation Building" and empire building for that is exactly what Manifest Destiny was and if we had them around back then we'd still be the original Thirteen Colonies!
Ya' mean there would just be a thin rim of population on the East Coast and everything else would be...Russia....and Manifest Destiny would just be a theory?
The folks I see daily in my line of work are definitely not pioneer stock. If we had depended on people like them to expand and populate the West...it would've been the same results that you posted above!
