Civil War Alabama - 1963

1959: United States Marshals are dispatched to Georgia in order to assure the admission of several blacks into a traditionally white school. A shot rings out. A Marshal drops dead, a bullet lodged in his neck. The nervous remaining nine U.S. Marshals open fire on a group of students, where the shot appeared to come from. Seven students drop down before Captain John Taylor, a Georgia State Trooper, has seen enough. He orders his subordinates to arrest the Marshals for murder. Shots between Taylor’s State Police and the Marshals ring out. In the end, three U.S. Marshals and one State Trooper are dead. Six U.S. Marshals are arrested. Eventually, after months of cold relations between Governor Vandiver and the Federal Government, five Marshals are acquitted. One stands trial and is convicted of murder.

1961: In Mississippi, James Meredith attempts to enroll in the University of Mississippi. This time, Federal soldiers escort the black man to the University of Mississippi. Bottles and bricks are thrown by students. Nervous Federal soldiers open fire on the students, killing nearly a dozen. State Troopers attempt to protect the students but they too are caught in the riot. Soon, a company of Military Police from the 112th Military Police Battalion of the Mississippi National Guard arrive and take control. In the end, a dozen students, three Federal soldiers, and four State Troopers lay dead.

1963: George Wallace takes his famous stand in the schoolhouse door of the University of Alabama. Tensions are at a breaking point, but order is maintained. That night, Wallace receives information that President Kennedy is planning on federalizing the Alabama National Guard in order to force desegregation. In a speech broadcast in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina, Governor Wallace orders the Alabama National Guard to mobilize. Asa Carter, Wallace’s speech writer, writes a brilliant speech which wins the support of all six states. Carter is placed in command of the Alabama State Police. Soon, Governors from the five other states call up their own National Guards. The Army, Air Force, and Naval Reserve choose sides; they illegally come under the command of the individual governors. Soon, military bases throughout the states are surrounded by National Guardsmen and Reserve soldiers loyal to Wallace and his fellow governors. Kennedy responds by ordering two companies of Federal soldiers south. At the Alabama border, a lone shot rings out, killing a Federal officer (it turns out that the shot was fired by a KKK member). A nervous Federal soldier opens up on a State Police squad car. A Company of the 1st Battalion, 131st Armor Regiment, Alabama National Guard, assigned to protect the State Troopers, opens fire on the Federal convoy. Hundreds are killed. National Guardsmen and Reservists from the six states collapse on Federal bases, capturing most with little fight, including the Naval base in Brunswick, Georgia, home to a fleet of Ballistic Missile Submarines. Kennedy denounces the southerners. It has begun again…
 
Walter_Kaufmann said:
1959: United States Marshals are dispatched to Georgia in order to assure the admission of several blacks into a traditionally white school. A shot rings out. A Marshal drops dead, a bullet lodged in his neck. The nervous remaining nine U.S. Marshals open fire on a group of students, where the shot appeared to come from. Seven students drop down before Captain John Taylor, a Georgia State Trooper, has seen enough. He orders his subordinates to arrest the Marshals for murder. Shots between Taylor’s State Police and the Marshals ring out. In the end, three U.S. Marshals and one State Trooper are dead. Six U.S. Marshals are arrested. Eventually, after months of cold relations between Governor Vandiver and the Federal Government, five Marshals are acquitted. One stands trial and is convicted of murder.

1961: In Mississippi, James Meredith attempts to enroll in the University of Mississippi. This time, Federal soldiers escort the black man to the University of Mississippi. Bottles and bricks are thrown by students. Nervous Federal soldiers open fire on the students, killing nearly a dozen. State Troopers attempt to protect the students but they too are caught in the riot. Soon, a company of Military Police from the 112th Military Police Battalion of the Mississippi National Guard arrive and take control. In the end, a dozen students, three Federal soldiers, and four State Troopers lay dead.

1963: George Wallace takes his famous stand in the schoolhouse door of the University of Alabama. Tensions are at a breaking point, but order is maintained. That night, Wallace receives information that President Kennedy is planning on federalizing the Alabama National Guard in order to force desegregation. In a speech broadcast in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina, Governor Wallace orders the Alabama National Guard to mobilize. Asa Carter, Wallace’s speech writer, writes a brilliant speech which wins the support of all six states. Carter is placed in command of the Alabama State Police. Soon, Governors from the five other states call up their own National Guards. The Army, Air Force, and Naval Reserve choose sides; they illegally come under the command of the individual governors. Soon, military bases throughout the states are surrounded by National Guardsmen and Reserve soldiers loyal to Wallace and his fellow governors. Kennedy responds by ordering two companies of Federal soldiers south. At the Alabama border, a lone shot rings out, killing a Federal officer (it turns out that the shot was fired by a KKK member). A nervous Federal soldier opens up on a State Police squad car. A Company of the 1st Battalion, 131st Armor Regiment, Alabama National Guard, assigned to protect the State Troopers, opens fire on the Federal convoy. Hundreds are killed. National Guardsmen and Reservists from the six states collapse on Federal bases, capturing most with little fight, including the Naval base in Brunswick, Georgia, home to a fleet of Ballistic Missile Submarines. Kennedy denounces the southerners. It has begun again…

Alabama gets crushed, I am not at all certain that other states would follow Alabama and regular troops vs National Guard is going to go in favor of the regulars virtually every time.
 
Scuttled subs

If you're looking for a nuclear deterent for the south, I don't think it's going to happen easily. Any ships would attempt to sortie if their base was under attack, and I'd expect that any nuclear armed ships would be thoroughly scuttled if they couldn't sortie--most likely destroying their nuclear arsenal beforehand.
Your timeline gives plenty of time for such preparations to be made. Anything non-moveable and of value will be a smoking wreck.
If something is captured intact, planes out of bases further away will simply wipe out critical assets. Much as I hate to admit it, even any captured battleship will be sunk.
Incidently, pity anyone who tries to storm a base if a Des Moines class cruiser--or a battleship--gets to battlestations. Machine guns are bad enough--the Des Moines has 9 8" machine guns plus the other weapons.
I'd also forget much hope of forgiveness for Wallace and those leaders who followed him. If they're lucky, they get captured by units of the Federal govermment--execution following a treason conviction won't be as nasty as falling into the hands of some of the blacks whos relatives were murdered by Alabama troops.
I'd expect that any possible relaxatiuon of racial tensions in the south would be set back a century or so, since the black residents have just been shown that the whites will do anything they can to keep them down.
Martial Law in the rebel states, probable total disarmament (or as near as possible) of the population, and the South doesn't consider voting for a Democrat for at least a century after the states have electoral votes again.
One thing for sure--Kennedy doesn't get shot in a motorcade in Dallas if he's got a war to run.
 

NapoleonXIV

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Unless there's some sort of drug in the way the words are written and Asa Carter is a better orator than Hitler there is no way in H*** all the Reservists of even one State will stay called up in loyalty to a governor against Regulars. Some might, but as many (I think more) might not. This applies even more to police. I think your revolt collapses before it begins unless the Guard and Reserve units are willing to turn their weapons on themselves as well.

There is also the general populace, most of which are armed and many of which are black. Wallace had widespread support but also strong opposition as did most of the segregationist governors.
 
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