Alternate United States Map
To be honest when I was making the map I completely forgot about marking the capital. The timeline has changed a bit since then, but the gist of it is that Washington DC suffered greater damage in the (earlier) alt-War of 1812, and the US government abandoned DC for Philadelphia (OTL Philly was pretty desperate to convince the Federal government to move - they even built a nice presidential mansion to try and lure the President to move there). The capital remained Philadelphia for a long time - but in the mid/late 19th century (in the Gilded Age) there's an attempt to move away from (crowded, polluted) Philadelphia to the area just across the Ohio river from Cincinnati (a kind of Federal Versailles). I haven't really settled on what happens to the US later on in the timeline, but one option I've been considering is a socialist revolution in the 1890s/1900s (e.g.
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A more extreme version of the 1877 Great Railroad Strike), and the new socialist government might move the capital away from the 'elitist' manors outside of Cincinnati to a more 'proletarian' location - an inland Midwestern city, complete with a purpose-built Brutalist government complex. Then, in the modern era, the capital would return to either Philadelphia or Cincinnati. The US does attempt to invade California for political reasons at some point, but Mexico is more developed and better prepared, while the US military is drastically underprepared (having been neglected and not taken seriously in the lead up to war) - leading to an embarassing defeat for the US, and the election of a Clay-style anti-imperialist who favours trade over war. California remains part of a monarchist Mexico, as Mexican control of the region is cemented by Catholic Filipino, Irish, Italian and Mexican settlers. Anglo-American immigrants to California generally integrate into Mexican-Californian society/economy (most OTL gold-seekers go towards Colorado thanks to the dates of gold discovery being swapped), and the region becomes a prosperous melting pot of Asian, American and European immigrants.