* Texas might still be Mexican.
* Alaska might still be Russian.

* Les from Hull - Is your name 'Leslie'? In the US, it would tend to be Lester.

Yeah. If we were British, our section of this continent would probably consist of 35 plus countries (most of them about the size of GREAT Britain) with who-knows-how-many languages and dialects.

The Brits have not been all that great in letting countries govern themselves - so we might have been in constant war long since. With each other.