On May 10th, 1945 President Dewey approved JCS (Joint Chiefs of Staff policy) 1067 which directed the U.S. forces of occupation in the Confederate States to "...take no steps looking toward the economic rehabilitation of the Confederacy [nor steps] designed to maintain or strengthen the Confederate economy" and to "prepare the former Confederate States for pastoralization and re-integration into the Union."
Two years later, however, Dewey did an about-face: It had become increasingly apparent that reintegrating the Confederacy into the United States after nearly a century of independence was more trouble than it was worth. Indeed, a number of higher ups in Dewey's cabinet predicted that attempting to reintegrate the Confederacy would lead to the emboldening of Freedomite holdouts and the start of a guerrilla war that would drain both blood and treasure at a time when neither could be spared.
A rump Confederacy comprised of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana and Florida was formed in 1949; Cuba was granted independence, while Chihuahua and Sonora were returned to Mexico and their Caucasian populations expelled. Over the years, the Confederacy has grown leaps and bounds in social, political and economic terms. Today, the "new south" is a high-tech, industrialized economy; a far cry from the burnt out husk of a totalitarian state that it was in 1945.
Along with Mexico and the United States, it is one of the "big three" in the North American Union and a formidable - if somewhat pacifistic - middle power in its own right. The Confederacy has come to terms with its unsavory history - both Freedomite and pre-Freedomite - thanks to the efforts of protest movements like the Yellow Magnolias in the 1960's.
As a Yankee expat sitting here in Tampa, my question to you is what would've happened if the United States had annexed the Confederate States outright. Would the worst predictions have come true and Neo-Freedomite groups risen up or were their fears unfounded?
OOC: ITTL, Dewey's plans for re-integrating the Confederacy went about as far as the Morgenthau Plan did in Germany. The rump Confederacy is essentially a subtropical version of (West) Germany.
Two years later, however, Dewey did an about-face: It had become increasingly apparent that reintegrating the Confederacy into the United States after nearly a century of independence was more trouble than it was worth. Indeed, a number of higher ups in Dewey's cabinet predicted that attempting to reintegrate the Confederacy would lead to the emboldening of Freedomite holdouts and the start of a guerrilla war that would drain both blood and treasure at a time when neither could be spared.
A rump Confederacy comprised of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana and Florida was formed in 1949; Cuba was granted independence, while Chihuahua and Sonora were returned to Mexico and their Caucasian populations expelled. Over the years, the Confederacy has grown leaps and bounds in social, political and economic terms. Today, the "new south" is a high-tech, industrialized economy; a far cry from the burnt out husk of a totalitarian state that it was in 1945.
Along with Mexico and the United States, it is one of the "big three" in the North American Union and a formidable - if somewhat pacifistic - middle power in its own right. The Confederacy has come to terms with its unsavory history - both Freedomite and pre-Freedomite - thanks to the efforts of protest movements like the Yellow Magnolias in the 1960's.
As a Yankee expat sitting here in Tampa, my question to you is what would've happened if the United States had annexed the Confederate States outright. Would the worst predictions have come true and Neo-Freedomite groups risen up or were their fears unfounded?
OOC: ITTL, Dewey's plans for re-integrating the Confederacy went about as far as the Morgenthau Plan did in Germany. The rump Confederacy is essentially a subtropical version of (West) Germany.