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.