Straha said:AH Challenge: with a POD no later than 1865, change the history of the American south such that the only people with a romantic attachment to the CSA are sad boozers living marginal existances at the fringes of society.
robertp6165 said:March 4, 1861...Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by a sniper as he takes the Oath of Office. Hannibal Hamlin is sworn in as President. The sniper is caught and revealed as an agent of the Confederate government. President Hamlin swears vengeance on those who slew "Honest Abe."
July 18, 1861...General Irvin McDowell inflicts a crushing defeat on the Confederate army under Generals Johnston and Beauregard at the Battle of Bull Run.
July 25, 1861...Union troops take Richmond. Jefferson Davis, the Confederate Cabinet, and most members of the Confederate Congress are captured while attempting to flee Richmond.
August 1861...Deprived of their national leadership, the secessionist states are thrown into turmoil. One by one, they surrender to the Union authorities. By September 1, the war is over.
September 1861...Trials are held of all Confederate national leaders, and military officers over the rank of Captain. The unanimous verdicts...guilty. The only sentence...death.
October 1861...Confederate leaders swing from gallows all over the South. President Hamlin orders Federal troops to occupy the South and place it under martial law. The Radical Republicans in Congress, with Hamlin's support, declare that the South is now an unorganized Territory, and that the former States which made it up no longer exist. The Supreme Court declares this illegal, and Hamlin has the Justices arrested.
Straha said:AH Challenge: with a POD no later than 1865, change the history of the American south such that the only people with a romantic attachment to the CSA are sad boozers living marginal existances at the fringes of society.
Abdul Hadi Pasha said:I don't think we need a POD for it to end up that way.
Abdul Hadi Pasha said:I don't think we need a POD for it to end up that way.
Mike Collins said:How about this. While overrunning the South, Federal forces find the Confederacy was pursuing a "Final Solution" against Blacks. Unlikely, but it ought to do the trick!
Xen said:Ok people, pay attention to detail. The original idea was to come up with a POD no later than 1865. In case you guys didnt realize it the Battle of Bull Run (both of the) and 1861 happened before 1865. Its not to complicated to follow the original instructions is it?
Simple, Abraham Lincoln doesnt relieve his guard at Fords Theater that fateful night in 1865. When Booth sees the guard he panics and flees, moving to San Francisco under an assumed name. When he dies in 1902 his diary is found by his son, and is published telling of his plan to assassinate the President.
Lincoln locks horn with Congress and the hard core radical republicans over reconstruction, but is ultimatley victorious, even after being impeached in 1867 (though he retains his office). Reconstruction goes much better, and there is less racial problems because Lincoln gives the blacks land in the plains. Immigrants start pouring into the South but are at odds with the religious nutcases because they are Orthodox or Catholic. Eventually they outnumber the hard core southerners and begin to influence the direction of southern governments, state and federal. The prejudice southerners either go west towards New Mexico and Arizona or northwards to Ohio and Indiana, leaving Dixe inhabited by immigrants and the children of immigrants.
By 2000 after nearly a century and a half of Eastern European/Irish immigrants being the backbone of the south, the midwestern states complain about the liberal south trying to lead the country into hell.
Brilliantlight said:1861 is not later then 1865.
Brilliantlight said:Pretty much. About the only people who have a great regard for the former Confederacy are hard core Southern racists which is made up largely of real losers.
robertp6165 said:Where oh where is our intrepid administrator when trolls like this are put out? Or is it that he just jumps all over those who make comments he doesn't agree with?
robertp6165 said:Where oh where is our intrepid administrator when trolls like this are put out? Or is it that he just jumps all over those who make comments he doesn't agree with?