AHC: Worst possible outcome for the CSA

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We've got a lot of challenges about making the CSA as successful as possible. Here's one for the reverse: Let's the CSA's history as worse as possible. Balkanization, Depression, mismanagement, having Mexico and the US tear chunks off of it, all is fair game in having the place crash and burn as spectacularly as can be.

Only criteria is that it must remain independent of the USA.
 
CSA wins war in 1866, after British and French interventionists are done tearing up Mexico, they sack New York. Slave rebellions occur as the CS' resources are stretched. Many escape to the United States. Due to many areas becoming deserted with all the slaves gone, and the economy going down the drain, the government decides to undustrialize. Industrialization on command does not go well, and the economy crashes again. Border incidents lead to war with the US in the late 1880s. The people see the upper classes having a lot of power and luxury, and a weird form of fundamentalist populism arises. A first world war in the early 1900s is devestating, and sees the rising of communists and slave converts to Islam, following the pan-Arican teachings of ATL marcus garvey. Somehow, the CSA ends up on thw inning side. Victory is not much of one, because a lot of the North is devestated and rebels still remain in the heartland. Plus, right after the war, Mexican republicans, with support from the US rose up and a really bloody civil war happened, leading to a refugee crisis into Texas. Finally, a Populist rebellion overthrows the government, and the rich are amssaxcred. Agrarian populists try to redistribute the land, but dont do well. THe CSA and USA fight on the same side in World War 2, against Nazis and Russian Fascists. The Agraro-Populists are defeated in a rebellion by the slaves in 2001, and the Agraro-Populists use nuclear weapons, obliterating most of the soithh.
 
Sherman marches. Sherman marches everywhere.

Utterly loot and destroy the Confederacy. Burn the plantation fields and capture all the slaves they can and ship them North as freedmen.
Then leave it independent, so the Dixie folk must rebuild the South from scratch with a virtually non-existent economy and government.

When they beg to come back to the Union, give them a big fat 'no'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgflCE7zRpc
 
I don't know if it's just me, but I've never understood the idea of a communist confederacy.
Slaves and poor whites rises against the planter elite and overthrows the aristocratic government,establishing the Democratic Socialist Confederate States of America.:D
 

Lateknight

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Slaves and poor whites rises against the planter elite and overthrows the aristocratic government,establishing the Democratic Confederate States of America.:D

Those are Two groups that have never worked together it's hard to conjure up a situation were they do.
 
To be honest independence probably is the worst outcome for the Confederacy in the long run. At its best it would not be a very wealthy nation lacking the means of properly industrializing, being next to a most likely suspicious (if not hostile) neighbor, and having an almost permanently restless underclass which either causes major social disruption or retardation to its national growth.

It really just goes downhill from there.
 
I actually have a set of notes for a Confederacy Timeline of my very very very own. It shall be such a grisly act of inhuman sodomy as to make make lost causers loose their bowels and weep and gnash their teeth.

I just have a few little projects to complete before I get to it.
 

Lateknight

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I actually have a set of notes for a Confederacy Timeline of my very very very own. It shall be such a grisly act of inhuman sodomy as to make make lost causers loose their bowels and weep and gnash their teeth.

I just have a few little projects to complete before I get to it.

Cool for as many conderate timeline we have here I don't recall any where the do very poorly.
 

Deleted member 67076

I actually have a set of notes for a Confederacy Timeline of my very very very own. It shall be such a grisly act of inhuman sodomy as to make make lost causers loose their bowels and weep and gnash their teeth.

I just have a few little projects to complete before I get to it.

Don't blue ball us like that, post em.
 
We've got a lot of challenges about making the CSA as successful as possible. Here's one for the reverse: Let's the CSA's history as worse as possible. Balkanization, Depression, mismanagement, having Mexico and the US tear chunks off of it, all is fair game in having the place crash and burn as spectacularly as can be.

Only criteria is that it must remain independent of the USA.

Hmm. Getting beaten up by Mexico is appealing, but what about Spain?

The Confederates decide to take Cuba and end up losing Florida.

Reconquista 2: Rebel Boogaloo.
 
Considering the culture of the OTL South that owes so much to the Slaveholder's Rebellion, I think the CSA getting owned by countries filled with people not white is very, very overdue.
 
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