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The Second American Civil War was an armed conflict fought between the Republics of Alabama and Georgia on one side and the United States (Federal) government on the other side. Tensions between either side were mounting with increasing push back from southern senators in their "maximum resistance" campaign against desegregation orders. This also co-incided with an increase in KKK membership within the Southern United States among a fear of federal interference with segregation. The Dixiecrat senator J. Lister Hill of Alabama and governor Ross Barnet of Mississippi had both backed the independent candidacy of south Carolina senator Strom Thurmond in the 1960 election.

While it wasn't enough to throw the election to the legislature as they had hoped, there were still enough concessions to hopefully be made out of the incoming Johnson Administration. The Texan would refute such attempts by Georgian Russell and ordered the states an ultimatum, comply with Brown v. Board of Education or risk losing federal funding. The two states instead opted to push the maximum resistance campaign, with FBI director Richard Nixon covertly assisting the southern states in their segregationist and racist messaging, if only to gain political points with conservatives.

Things would reach a boiling point with the attempted assassination of LBJ in 1964 while on the campaign trail in Mobile. While lackluster security was to blame thanks to the Secret Service, LBJ would politely tell the governors of Mississippi and Alabama to go fuck themselves. More overzealous and far right members, such as Naval Admiral John G. Crommelin and Arkansas Governor Orval Fabus would urge succession, though the latter would be more apprehensive at the probability of the us military breathing down Arkansas's neck, so opted to play both sides.

On December 19, 1964, Governors Wallace and Barnett both declared their succession from the Union, announcing that all foreigners not of good southern blood be either segregated or forced to leave the nation within twenty four hours. Johnson would have none of this, with phones ringing throughout the White House between Secretary of State Goldwater, who argued that diplomacy must still be attempted before force would be used. Johnson would listen to Goldwater, calling both Wallace and Barnett, to which there was no reply. With diplomacy removed, Johnson spoke before congress to declare war on the "illegal secessionist movement which oppresses our fellow man on the color of his skin." The vote was almost unanimous, with only the Arkansas house delegation voting against the resolution.

With justification for the action, LBJ would nationalize both Alabama and Mississippi's national guards, putting them under de jure federal control. De facto, however, they still remained on the payroll and took orders from both Montgomery and Jackson. Realizing their lack of forces needed, Wallace would implement a mandatory draft to "defend the white man", with Barnett opting for a similar rhetoric in mobilizing the Mississippi volunteers.
Secretary of State Goldwater would reluctantly give the go ahead on the President's orders to restore order. The first phase of the war was a mess of the southern swampland, with large northern volunteers being shipped in, with little knowledge of the terrain, only to be ripped to shreds in Alabamian ambushes by technicals and gun wielding locals.

Curtis Le May would give the go ahead for a sort of "Sherman's March to the Sea", bombarding the two states with impressive amounts of air power. both Mobile and Birmingham were turned into smoldering wrecks as civilians opted to attempt to flee. It was at this time that the Soviet Politburo opted to throw their hand into the pot, fucking with the Americans in carefully shipping medical supplies through the Gulf of Mexico's federal blockade. By the Fall of 1965, 15% of Alabama and 25% of Mississippi was back in federal hands. Rival governments were established under the helm of the Mississippi Freedom Party and Alabama Justice Party respectively as puppets of Johnson.
Wallace and Barnett were less interested in hearing about the joys of Marxism and a centralized economy than more appreciative of the secretly smuggled AK-47s and light mortars by Soviet cargo ships under various foreign flags that slipped into Mobile past the federal blockade. In June of 1966, a breakthrough was made with a stunning discovery by MFP's militant wing, the Mississippi Liberation Front for Blacks (MLFB). A large genocide, organized by Alabaman Prime Minister John G. Crommelin's far right White Right militants and fanatics was being undertaken in the southern rebellious states. What little sympathy the rebellion had in the south evaporated overnight, though Curtis LeMay wasn't so sure of their willingness to come to terms...

What occurred next is considered a war crime by international observers, and so remains a controversial part, if not the most controversial part of the entire conflict. An Atomic Bomb, covertly authorized by LeMay, was dropped on Jackson on October 11th. The blast eliminated both Mississippian leaders, though drove a far right terrorist organization to continue to stir up troubles during reconstruction throughout the 70s. LBJ Threw one hell of a hissy fit that night, with LeMay and the Texan shouting through a phone, with Johnson thirsting to strangle LeMay through the wires.

Ultimately, the action sent a message to Soviet Leadership, with foreign advisors leaving the nation overnight, only leaving a handful of soviet rockets and assault rifles for the rebels to utilize. The Soviets also went on high alert, with the world being ever closer to nuclear war because of the atomic strike on Jackson. Mississippi found cause with the decapitation strike, surrendering on October 13th. Alabamian high command still refused to give in, fighting more and more fanatical under the increasing influence of Admiral Crommellin as the peace faction lead by Wallace was diminished in local military decision making and diplomacy. J. Lister Hill would launch a coup against Crommelin on the 9th through the next day, with him officially ordering the militia to stand down.

The fate of George Wallace is an interesting one. While northerners howled for blood from the traitor, LBJ instead opted to give him a full pardon for surrendering prematurely. He would later go on to be elected Governor twice more and win a bid for the White House in 1972 against one term incumbent Barry Goldwater.

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I've often thought of a scenario where a victorious CSA later collapsed. I've also tried to think of what a Christian Identity-style dictatorship would look like in the Americas, so I decided to combine those two ideas.

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Nathaniel Matthew Ray was the 4th President of the Republic of Florida. Ray was the only child of former Governor of Florida P. Simon Ray, and ran multiple times for the C.S. Congress before being elected in 1951. Like his father, Ray was extremely racist and right-wing, and was one of the few politicians to openly call for the dissolution of the CSA before it occurred in 1955. After Florida became an independent state, Ray became one of the founding members of the Christian Party of Florida, an extreme white supremacist and antisemitic party associated with the emerging Christian Identity movement. He was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 1956, and quickly emerged as the leader of the Christian Party. In 1962, Ray ran for President as the Christian Party candidate to succeed outgoing President Francis Whitehall. However, he lost to the moderate Florida Party candidate Lester Wages.

Wages proved to be corrupt and unpopular, and the Christian Party grew in numbers until it won an overwhelming majority in the legislature. Wages and his vice president were impeached and removed from office. Speaker Jefferson High became president, but immediately resigned. Despite no constitutional provision existing to allow it, the legislature voted to allow Nathaniel Ray to assume the office of President, and fellow Christian Party member Joseph Cole to become Vice President.

Ray quickly consolidated his power, and was in effect a dictator within two years. He "postponed" the 1968 presidential election and abolished term limits; when the more moderate Cole claimed that Ray was thus an unelected, illegitimate President, Ray had Cole arrested for treason and executed. This elected continued to be postponed until 1977, when Ray won an election widely seen as fraudulent. Ray's regime enforced a fundamentalist and white supremacist ideology commonly known as Rayism. Rayism was defined by extreme segregation (with entire cities designated as "whites only"), antisemitism, and, especially after 1970, extreme patriarchy (women in Florida were stripped of almost all individual rights until the 2010s). Florida became isolated from its fellow post-Confederate nations and the world as a whole, and thus its economy dropped significantly; despite recent moves away from isolation, Florida remains one of the world's smallest economies.

Ray himself became notable for his increasingly erratic behavior as he got older. Ray purged his government multiple times in the 1990s, and frequently ordered the use of the death penalty for minor offenses. His most infamous action was ordering the execution of all employees of national airline Air Florida after a plane crash killed Vice President Trafford Allan in 1998. Despite being known to have severe Alzheimer's disease, Ray continued making decisions until his death in 2005 at the age of 88. Ray and his regime were widely condemned by the Western world, due to his oppressive rule, extreme discrimination, and sponsorship of Rayist terrorist groups outside of Florida.
 
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Is that just what they called it, or does that imply there's another in the future?

Wait, and Wallace manages to become President?? After all that? After a secession and genocide? Wow that sounds dreadful
It's a mixture of both, Historically used to distinguish between the first and the second. During the 60's the White's First ideology seeped into local governance in Alabama, with the official name being the "First White Republic of Alabama" The idea of the name was that would eventually be a second and also to make certain the racial hierarchy of such a state. The name would be utilized in the Second White Republic of Alabama following the controversial 1988 election of former Black Panther member Eldrige Cleaver. This time the south gets a little bit bigger in that Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and Georgia all join, resulting in a longer third american civil war (1989-1994) which sees Texas devolve into a far right christian dictatorship under David Koresh, while the other states would rejoin the union. Texas is still a point of contention with the United States, akin to a North Korea situation, only with more racists and fanatics at the helm in Waco.
There's also a Third White Republic set up by David Duke in response to the election of J.C Watts during the 2000 election, which leads to a fourth american civil war (2001-2004).

Wallace would play a "remorseful southerner" during the 1972 campaign, while still retaining slightly racist attitudes and hoisting Martin Luther King as his democratic running mate, with them easily beating Goldwater in the electoral college while losing the popular vote, owing to the whole "rebellion" thing. He also gets re-elected in 1976 even after causing a few nuclear genocides owing to a lost temper over the Korean War in 1980.
 
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"Ex-F1 driver Jos Verstappen's son Max becomes the first member of the Mercedes young driver development program. The Dutchman can make his GP debut in a few years" - 2014 Belgian GP.

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Well. Wallace getting elected after that still seems a bit like Jeff Davis getting elected in 1872 or something. And how does he get MLK to be his runningmate, especially when he's "still retaining slightly racist attitudes "

Also, how do Goldwater and Nixon end up in the LBJ government? I noticed Thurmond ran in 1960 rather than the independent Dems for Byrd, it says they didn't throw the election to the house, but do they then prevent a majority of electoral votes won by either other candidate leading to them making some sort of deal with faithless electors to prevent it from going to the house, and that's how Goldwater and Nixon end up in government? Or did I miss something?
 
It's a mixture of both, Historically used to distinguish between the first and the second. During the 60's the White's First ideology seeped into local governance in Alabama, with the official name being the "First White Republic of Alabama" The idea of the name was that would eventually be a second and also to make certain the racial hierarchy of such a state. The name would be utilized in the Second White Republic of Alabama following the controversial 1988 election of former Black Panther member Eldrige Cleaver. This time the south gets a little bit bigger in that Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and Georgia all join, resulting in a longer third american civil war (1989-1994) which sees Texas devolve into a far right christian dictatorship under David Koresh, while the other states would rejoin the union. Texas is still a point of contention with the United States, akin to a North Korea situation, only with more racists and fanatics at the helm in Waco.
There's also a Third White Republic set up by David Duke in response to the election of J.C Watts during the 2000 election, which leads to a fourth american civil war (2001-2004).

Wallace would play a "remorseful southerner" during the 1972 campaign, while still retaining slightly racist attitudes and hoisting Martin Luther King as his democratic running mate, with them easily beating Goldwater in the electoral college while losing the popular vote, owing to the whole "rebellion" thing. He also gets re-elected in 1976 even after causing a few nuclear genocides owing to a lost temper over the Korean War in 1980.
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Well. Wallace getting elected after that still seems a bit like Jeff Davis getting elected in 1872 or something. And how does he get MLK to be his runningmate, especially when he's "still retaining slightly racist attitudes "

Also, how do Goldwater and Nixon end up in the LBJ government? I noticed Thurmond ran in 1960 rather than the independent Dems for Byrd, it says they didn't throw the election to the house, but do they then prevent a majority of electoral votes won by either other candidate leading to them making some sort of deal with faithless electors to prevent it from going to the house, and that's how Goldwater and Nixon end up in government? Or did I miss something?
Wallace , though he still retains racist prejudices and is convinced that blacks might be working with the communists, is willing to meet African american leadership, albeit will remain heavily suspicious and paranoid about possible traps for himself. He opted to take a trip abroad and met with various spiritual leaders, including Jim Jones in Jonestown. He talks MLK into being his running mate and running on a platform of asking for forgiveness, with the Wallace administration also putting the first black supreme court justice on in 1974. (He also controversially appointed his wife who is healthier than OTL)

Nixon is in because Hoover suffers a heart attack earlier than expected, so the dogmatic anticommunist resigns from the Vice Presidency in 1955 to manage the FBI.
Johnson opts to mend ties with the slightly pissed off arizonan, and so goes into a hallway and manages to convince the Arizonan to jump on board the new administration as his Secretary of State.
 
@John_Smith IDK the actual event pretty well, did it portray Deadshot as a genuine vigilante, as opposed to an assassin or a crook pretending to be a vigilante?

As far as the comics go, Deadshot had not appeared there. Basically, I treat the RL Flashpoint infoboxes as a loose adaptation of the 2011 comics story with most of its foundations left intact (such as Bruce's early death, Thomas and Martha's turn to the dark side, etc.) and with combination of character stories from Golden, Silver and Bronze Ages of comics, but with the sense of realism that would allow it all to be plausible to a certain extent.

This is the main reason why I will not do infoboxes for characters that featured extensively in Flashpoint such as the Flash, Reverse-Flash and others who have explicitly supernatural abilities, while I am attempting to find a more realistic backstory for other characters who might not have appeared at all in those comics, but would have fit well in the infobox series (such was the case with The Monk, who was a blood-sucking vampire in his introduction in DC #31, but he's merely an irredeemable Klansman in my own infobox).

This is basically the thing I am trying to portray - is this Bat-Man really the hero of this story while the bad guys from before retain their roles, or is their relationship more murky now, or even switched-up? The same is with Herbert Seigh, whose assassination of the incomprehensibly corrupt mayor Thompson might have seemed like a blessing in disguise, but not soon after the deed he took the life of Robert F. Wagner, a senator who was actually looking out for the middle class and people abandoned by the system such as Seigh himself, all because of his rage and the feeling of betrayal that he could not help stave off at all. A hero for some, a villain for others...
 
As far as the comics go, Deadshot had not appeared there. Basically, I treat the RL Flashpoint infoboxes as a loose adaptation of the 2011 comics story with most of its foundations left intact (such as Bruce's early death, Thomas and Martha's turn to the dark side, etc.) and with combination of character stories from Golden, Silver and Bronze Ages of comics, but with the sense of realism that would allow it all to be plausible to a certain extent.

This is the main reason why I will not do infoboxes for characters that featured extensively in Flashpoint such as the Flash, Reverse-Flash and others who have explicitly supernatural abilities, while I am attempting to find a more realistic backstory for other characters who might not have appeared at all in those comics, but would have fit well in the infobox series (such was the case with The Monk, who was a blood-sucking vampire in his introduction in DC #31, but he's merely an irredeemable Klansman in my own infobox).

This is basically the thing I am trying to portray - is this Bat-Man really the hero of this story while the bad guys from before retain their roles, or is their relationship more murky now, or even switched-up? The same is with Herbert Seigh, whose assassination of the incomprehensibly corrupt mayor Thompson might have seemed like a blessing in disguise, but not soon after the deed he took the life of Robert F. Wagner, a senator who was actually looking out for the middle class and people abandoned by the system such as Seigh himself, all because of his rage and the feeling of betrayal that he could not help stave off at all. A hero for some, a villain for others...
Gotcha.

Regardless, I look forward to seeing where you go next.
 
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The “Doomsday Incident” (also popularly known as “The Death of Superman” or “The Destruction of Metropolis” occurred midday on January 21st, 1993, when the alien bio-weapon “Doomsday” teleported within the Earth's atmosphere, crashed in the Delaware River, and began rampaging throughout the city.

Several heroes engaged the frenzied monster, including Blue Beetle, Green Lantern, and both of Superman's sons, Superman II and Nightwing, all of whom were heavily injured during the fight. After they were defeated, the original Superman arrived and fought the monster, killing it, but dying in the process.

The total number of wounded and dead reached 26,000, with experts speculating the death toll potentially reaching over 60,000 had the creature landed in the center of the city instead of the river, giving time for superheroes to evacuate and confront the monster.

An investigation by the US Government revealed that Doomsday was a heavily modified Parademon from the Darkseid Army, and that the reason it was able to avoid detection was due to the use of a Boom Tube to drop it within Earth's atmosphere.
 
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