2nd Confederacy

This is probably already a thread, but I'm hoping this isn't redudent regardless.

Could there have been a Fascist uprising in the Deep South lead by the KKK during say... the Great Depression? One of the PODs would be FDR is assassinated successfully. This leads to... a number of radical factions rising from the Great Depression continuing to get worse.
 
No. There will be no Fascist uprising because the US doesn't have enough fascists.

One could see how someone like Huey Long might be elected if the Depression gets worse, but even then calling it "fascist" would be a stretch.

There certainly would not be any neo-Confederate attempt to secede. The issues that lead to secession no longer apply. It is a dead letter.

The major things that the US needed to do was 1) have a bank holiday (which was already planned by Hoover and likely to be initiated even if FDR was shot during the assassination attempt that killed Anton Cermak), and 2) institute some kind of social relief program that ameliorated the worse of the Depression. Most of the other measures taken by FDR were either long term reforms that while beneficial, were not immediately needed, or acts that had dubious benefits at best and probably did not materially affect recovery.

1932/1933 was the worse of the Depression. Some kind of improvement was likely inevitable, even under Cactus Jack Garner. He might not be popular enough to be renominated in 1936, but it is impossible for me to see how things could have gotten so bad that a revived KKK could create a new Confederacy.
 
Oh, I could imagine the Great Depression sinking even lower, however they aren't very plausible, and some are outright ASB. Thanks though.
 
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