Down with the traitors and up with the stars, as they say. Here's to another 400+ page thread.
I have to say that I'll be as curious about the failures of this alt Reconstruction as I am its successes. Like naraht pointed out, the Feds are going to have to occupy a shit ton of land to see this...
This is probably the most likely outcome. Late 19th century authors taking on a finger-wagging, moralizing tone towards the pre-bellum and per-bellum South and then this gradually evolving as time goes on, and restrictions on what is considered appropriate for media loosen, that we see more...
Having Hammond strung up was at least something. Just an utterly abominable human being and his pro-slavery arguments weren't even some of the worst things about him (a genuinely incredible feat). Plus, Columbia's been razed to the ground.
I would concur that the best thing to do was for an...
The latest point that the U.S. could conceivably take parts of Canada would be to have done better during the War of 1812. At this point, the average Canadian has made it quite clear they don't want to be Americans and the Americans have no illusions that they're waiting to be 'liberated.'
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No.
Not only am I opposed to this ideologically, since I'm a republican with a small r, but any state with the foundation of being imposed with a gun barrel, especially foreign made, is an inherently illegitimate one. The Mexican people did not deserve to have a leader who'd never even stepped...
If nothing else, the Second French Empire should collapse one way or the other (if we're connecting it solely to events portrayed in the TL thus far) for helping to stage a reactionary coup in Mexico to prop up a would-be puppet state. If there is one through line to the whole story, it is the...
I was of course expecting Lincoln to trounce his opposition, but certainly not as thoroughly as he did here. Even with the likely vote rigging in Delaware and Kentucky, the National Unity Party and remnant Dems are perfunctory at best at this point. With Washingtonian levels of returns, the most...
Publicly refused? Doubtful. Social conditions are rapidly changing, but that's a line that many Black Americans will not likely cross. A white woman is still a white woman - she holds a place in the hierarchy they do not.
That said, as was mentioned before in the thread, the topic of...
Toombs dying ingloriously is probably the most fitting end to the Civil War here. No trial, no hanging or firing squad - either having him killed by fleeing/angry soldiers when they refuse to follow some suicidal order or if anyone getting whacked by Black Union troops specifically deserves...
The major problem with the 'USA-as-USSR' analogue is that, currently, it has no real reason to be that way for the foreseeable future. What would it be exporting? Democracy? Republicanism? A stumbling block is, again, that the United States is still very, very racist even if it becomes just a...
This is the correct take, I feel.
We're about to enter into an age of politics that will be shepherded in by big business interests coming out of the North. In many ways, as the American public relies on governmental and private interests to rebuild the country after an even more devastating...
I think it's more that the hagiography has changed, like I talked about was likely to happen before in this thread the closer we get to the present. It's 'safer' to attack the founders that were from slave-holding regions than ones that weren't. It's less that your critiques are false - they're...
I suppose I should've seen out and out warlords as the natural end result of where the CSA is at this point. In certain respects that's better, since it means that the left hand and right hand won't know what the other is doing, but on the other, it makes any kind of formal surrender impossible...