Cf Allison's talk "The Rebellion of 1689", and the one on smugglers, also the one on Captain Kidd.
The colonists were as unlikely to come together into a workable union then as later, or now.
By workable union, one definition might be low risk of secession of territory, low risk of civil war or revolution.
As David Kaiser's comments here and there clearly demonstrate as well, the US has failed and still fails to meet either of these criteria.
I would add that it has failed to do so either before the Civil War or after, although he refers to "preserving the union", in reference to Sherman and others, it is the same flawed union now as back then or before.
One can advert to Katrina, Bobbitt's passages in Terror essential reading, to understand why New Orleans was actually hindered, both before and after Katrina, by being part of an unworkable union.
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