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Have them appear in a Final Countdown Scenario. perhaps in the middle of the Pacific, right after Pearl Harbor - and close to the route Kido Butai took to return to Japan...

A beautiful ship. I hope there'll be some stories with her and her sister ship thrown back in time to sink Axis ships.

A few Phalanxes are cheaper than a new ship.

Needs more phalanx.

My condolences.

The Princely States might be seen as a better example to follow than the US territories, though.

They could ask the British for protection. Cut a deal with them. Or, though that's risky, try to copy Siam and play the UK and the USA against each other to preserve their independence.

Just shoot at shadows or in the air - suppressive fire and anti-aircraft fire - until you've spent your last bullet :)

Don't even have to be too creative - just keep the troops out until the cold takes its toll, and let them shoot at shadows.

Only if you go pants-on-head crazy like Stirling. In this timeline? the exiles would get curbstomped by the British Empire if they tried anything like the Draka.

Exactly! The more the "Southern Pride" attitude, aka "let's oppress the African-Americans again as soon as we can!" is destroyed, the more democratic (in the government system sense, not the party sense) Alt-USA becomes. Just take a look at Germany post-WW2. OTL, the Federal government had to...

Well, I bloody hope so. After a few years of bloody war, perhaps even total war, Sherman style, I don't see a lot of "racial solidarity" remaining in the North.

Why would there be many moderates left after this war? It's supposed to be more radical, after all - why would the North still cater to the traitors? If Reconstruction results in the same Jim Crow shit, why even bother with a different war?

So what?`The South pretty much went and did it here - the North won't care much about their sensibilities. Arming the Black population will do a lot to keep them protected. And, frankly, if the choice is to placate the racists by letting them oppress the blacks as soon as the federal troops are...

As I said, it would likely garner more sympathy for African-Americans in the Union. They would be seen as allies, not merely people to be rescued (and sometimes even blamed for the war). It would also be an uplifting event for the African-American community - they fought and earned their...

A slave rebellion, especially a large-scale one, would massively influence not just the war, but the aftermath as well. Much more sympathy than OTL for the African-American in the Union in such a case, I'd say - much less chance of the OTL Jim Crow laws being installed decades after the war.

No, just a hatred of slavery, and scorn for those who defend it.

Lee didn't oppose slavery. He owned slaves. And he wrote that "the relation of master and slave, controlled by humane laws and influenced by Christianity" was "the best that can exist between the white and black races."