Lincoln was a Republican, and thus he got it wrong. He should have let the South secede. They'd be an eastern Mexico. Miami would be like Cancun, but with hurricanes.
I drew a new flag. Removed from the stars: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Removed from the stripes: Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia
The electoral college would be 260 for Kerry, 159 for Bush. Except Bush would have had to run from his native state, rather than from Texas, so maybe he'd have taken Connecticut.
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