AHC: The South Will Rise Again

A Confederate victory in the ACW is an old cliche, and about as likely as a successful Sealion.

This challenge is slighty different: with a POD after the Civil War, have the South set on a course for maximum de facto independence, with maximum points for a formal separation. I'm putting this in pre-1900 because I can't think of any way it would happen with a 20th century POD if there is a WWIi anything like in OTL.
 
Have the Radical Republicans push a more Radical Reconstruction, alienate everyone to the extent that people who eventually settled in (maybe after some KKK action) to become not too disloyal citizens become radicalized diehearts.

Some suggestions-- Execute surrendering Confederate officers, confiscate property, restrict voting rights and generally act like tyrants. Get to the point that even some blacks are ready to make common cause with the now thouroghly disenfranchised southern whites.

Mix, shake, and make the entire South resemble Ireland post WW1 and keep it up for 10, 20, 30 years. Have public opinion in the north and in the world turn and make it bloody expensive.

The US cannot win that type of war.
 
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