Would San Diego be even bigger than San Francisco or even the real LA if it had been Southern railroad Terminus? LA became...
Anonymous asked: Would San Diego be even bigger than San Francisco or even the real LA if it had been Southern railroad Terminus? LA became bigger than San Francisco in terms of population and it seems it benefited from some luck.
Maybe? It wouldn’t have the oil boom, and getting water from the Sierra Nevadas would be even tougher, but in that alternate history maybe instead the San Diego Aqueduct to the Colorado happens before the Hoover Dam, Las Vegas and the Central Arizona Project never happen and the Coachella Music Festival is held in Owens Valley instead? Also maybe in this history the US grabs part of Baja California during the Mexican Revolution?