Alternate Headlines (CSA Wins the War)

Moore2012

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This thread will be dedicated to headlines in a world where the South won the War.

The POD is Jackson survives Chancellorsville.

Guest posting is permitted under the following rules,

(1) Keep it as realistic as possible, (No KKK membership hits 100% junk)
(2) Headlines from June 27, 2013 onward.
(3) Use the following timeline as a basic guide;

1863: Lee wins at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Baltimore. Grant comes east and Lee is forced to withdraw from Maryland.
1864: With the support of Lee and Jackson, the "Cleburne Plan" is implemented. By June, 75,000 black troops are enlisted, trained, and sent into battle. This proves decisive as Lee and Jackson force Grant to retreat to Washington, and Johnston and Cleburne nearly destroy Sherman in Georgia. McClellan wins in November and The CSA (plus KY, OK, and WV) is granted independence.
1865-1870: The South enjoys grant prosperity and starts to build a friendly relationship with the North. Many blacks are expelled from the North by angry northerners who blame them for the war, a paramilitary group known as the Ku Klux Klan is formed in Indiana as an anti-black, anti-southern organization.
1870-1880: The South suffers a painful recession and has to slowly build back her economy with a greater infuses on industry and manufacturing.
1880-1900: The USA and CSA grow closer in friendship and trust. The last southern state abolishes slavery (1889). The Spanish-American War in 1898 helped to bring the North and South together.
1900-1920: WWI happens the same as OTL. USA joins in late 1916, and the South in early 1917.
1920-1929: Good times North and South. Voting rights for southern blacks.
1929-1940: The Great Depression (1929-1931 in the South)
1939-1945: WW2. The South has ships at Pearl Harbor and joins the war at the same time as the USA.
1945-1960: Cold War and Korea (1950-53)
1960-1975: Vietnam (limited CSA participation), Kennedy assassinated in Los Angeles (1963), Anti-War and Hippie movement (US only).
1975-1980: Malaise North and South.
1980-1990: The American Decade. Presidents Reagan and Helms win the Cold War and lead a new Conservative revolution in American politics.
1990-2000: Gulf War, CS President Buchanan pulls out of NATO and the UN. Contract with America (led by PA Congressman Newt Gingrich).
2000-2012: 2000 Recount (Bush beats Kerry). 9-11, Afghanistan and Iraq (no CSA troops in Iraq). Great Recession in the North. Barack Obama elected first black US President. Rick Perry elected CS president in 2011. TEA Party movement in the North. Obama wins re-election over Jon Huntsman.
2013: The North is about the same as the USA in OTL. Since there was no need for a ‘southern strategy’ many blue-collar Reagan Democrats in the mid-west and north-east vote Republican (think 1980’s political landscape).

The South is fair-trade (i.e. reciprocal tariffs), given its need to find markets for its agricultural products and need to protect its growing industrial base. The CSA's smaller size would prevent it's trying to build an empire (Cuba, Mexico, Iraq, etc.) so it would be far more paleoconservative in its politics generally, and in foreign policy particularly. Today, it would look a lot like OTL South, except that abortion and sodomy would be illegal. Feminism would be on the fringes (since Southern women didn't push for the vote until the late 1940's). Since voting rights were guaranteed to blacks by the 1920's, MLK is remembered as a popular pastor and congressman from Alabama. The CSA would be a member of NATO (in spite of President Buchanan's efforts), but left the UN in 1994. There is no income tax (there is a 10% NST/Fair Tax). Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. are state programs. The CSA has a border fence, a balanced budget amendment, a gold/silver standard and no central bank. The current President is Rick Perry and the Conservative Party (OTL Republicans) control 2/3 of Congress.
 

Moore2012

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SENATE TO VOTE ON BORDER SECURITY BILL

The Associated Press, Richmond, Thursday, June 27, 2013
RICHMOND (AP) - The Senate is on the cusp of approving legislation which if passed will double the Border Guard, enact stricter penalties for employers who hire illegal aliens, and provide funds to expand the border wall from El Paso up the Rio Grande to Santa Fe and the Colorado border with the North.

The vote on final passage of the Grey House-backed bill was expected as early as Thursday, after a series of test votes so far this week demonstrated supporters command a bipartisan majority well over the 19 votes needed to secure passage and send the bill to the House.

First must come two more procedural tests set for Thursday.

"We're on the edge of passing one of the most significant pieces of legislation that this body has passed in a very long time," Senate Majority Leader Jim DeMint (Conservative) of South Carolina said on Wednesday. "The vast majority of members in this body realize that the border security system needs fixing."

Supporters posted 20 votes or more on each of three procedural tests Wednesday.

The outlook there is uncertain. Many in the House support adding a 10-year moratorium on immigration to the bill.

The Outnumbered critics insist the bill will only hurt relations with the US, Mexico, and the World. Senate Minority Leader Mary Landrieu (Liberal-Democrat), of Louisiana called it "the mother of all pariahs that will only serve to make the World view us like South Africa and Saudi Arabia."
 
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