21st centry Confederacy

Segregation exist in the CSA until the 1990's (paralleling apartheid in south Africa)
? De Jure or De Facto?.
De Jure Segregation was a reaction to the Voting Rights act and to the Carpetbaggers, Neither of which You will have here.
Separate but Equal [Fergusson 1896] was the result of The New York Chapter of the NAACP instigating and Funding the Lawsuit.
Then there is the Fact that a lot of the Jim Crow Laws were first passed in the Northern States , then adopted by the south.
A lot will hinge on How & When you solve the Slavery Issue.
Still, I don't see how Maximilian Hapsburg is going to survive in Mexico, and that means that neither Sonora nor Chihuahua are going to be sold.
If the CS takes and holds Arizona till the CS victory at Antietam, and the CS taking of Washington, Then Juarez is forced out of Hiding in Arizona. This would allow the French to capture him and some of his top People. The Capture and execution of Juarez would take a lot of steam out of the Resistance.
However the selling of Sonora and Chihuahua would cause everyone in Mexico to rise up.
But there is Baja - The Reason Mexico has Baja and not the US is simple --Mexico Lost the Card Game.
you can either have the CSA buy them (reasonably unlikely with the shortage of money that they'd have) or have a war with Mexico.
depends on when the CSA buys Baja.

The South went Bankrupt in the 1830's, recovered by the late 50's, was devastated by the Civil War, and recovered by the late 80's [King Cotton and the Cotton Barons] to a extent far beyond the 30's or the 50's, so the Money is there.

I see the CS buying Baja in the 1890's and having Tijuana as the Pacific Terminus of the Confederate Trans-continental.
The CSA is very insular for the first few decades of its independence, choosing to isolate its self from the rest of the world till it can get its own house in order. They spend much of their time trying to build up an industrial base to compete with the USA
Political Isolation is not the same as Economic Isolation. A CS that refuses to get involved Politically or Military, can still trade with everyone.

I see Cuba becoming Independent in the late 1890's, and becoming a Industrial Powerhouse of the Caribbean. Perhaps taking PR from Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
 
I can't imagine why the Mexicans would want to sell the Baja Penensula. In OTL the only sale that the mexicans were willing to make was the Gadsen Purchase, and that only with great pressure from the US. Why the CSA would gain a whole penisula is beyond me.
 
Couple possible reasons I would suggest to explain it.

1)Maximilian I could have succeeded in claiming Mexico with the support of the monarchists and conservatives (and the CSA), which means Mexico is his baby to do with what he wants. And if the CSA helps him, he could feel some debt to the CSA.

2) If I'm remember correctly, Baja was not really populated and was just another territory, so why not sell it?
 
I think if maximillian will attempt to keep his position as leader of the country then he won't simply give mexican land away.
 
I can't imagine why the Mexicans would want to sell the Baja Peninsula. In OTL the only sale that the Mexicans were willing to make was the Gadsden Purchase, and that only with great pressure from the US. Why the CSA would gain a whole peninsula is beyond me.
Because the Mexicans didn't want it. As I said they lost the Card game during the post Mexican-American war treaty negotiations, and had to keep it. It is probably the only bit of Mexico, Maximilian could sell with out a uproar from the Mexican nationalists
 
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