AHC: Communist CSA

I would like you to write about what would happen if the south won the US Civil War, and then went communist.
 
If the CSA doesn't immediately collapse within a decade, there's a decent chance of this. The majority of white Confederates gained nothing from secession, something which only benefited the planting class. Poor white southerners--small farmers and sharecroppers, miners, factory workers, and longshoremen--would very much be second-class citizens in the CSA, and if they are willing to ally themselves with a slave revolt, you could at least get a revolution, albeit one which would probably end up more radically liberal or populist than Marxist and which would end in American reunification.
 
If the CSA doesn't immediately collapse within a decade, there's a decent chance of this. The majority of white Confederates gained nothing from secession, something which only benefited the planting class. Poor white southerners--small farmers and sharecroppers, miners, factory workers, and longshoremen--would very much be second-class citizens in the CSA, and if they are willing to ally themselves with a slave revolt, you could at least get a revolution, albeit one which would probably end up more radically liberal or populist than Marxist and which would end in American reunification.

Yeah, this, pretty much. OTOH, it does remind me of an AHC I'd thought of recently.....;)
 
See my signature. I've been working on a novel with this exact premise for a couple years, and have thought of doing a TL about it.
 
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