Challenge: Confederates go into exile in Australia

5. To expedite this process, have an ahistorical or even historical Southerner (William Walker doesn't die in Central America but went somewhere else) go to Australia at war's end or even beforehand and write a travelogue about what a wonderful place it is. His account, combined with the above factors, cause many disenchanted Confeds to seek their fortunes abroad.

Enter Australia.
I think I found your ideal man! His name was John Fearn Francis and was a native born Britain who was exiled to Australia, then moved to Louisiana, fought in the confederate army, and died a war hero in 1864. In OTL his wife moved back to Australia with his kids after the war. Maybe you could provide a simple POD in which he does not die as he did in OTL and then provides encouragement to other southerners to come to Australia.
 
...a penal colony of a nation that is strongly anti-slavery.
Australia was anti-slavery and pro-kanaka?!

Gee, I guess you'd better get to work rewritting those OTL history books that say Australia was still a British colony at this point, the Brits abolished slavery in 1833 and continued to campaign for it's being abolished internationally, and that any kanakas who may actually have been slaves were illegally blackbirded, instead of trying to be snarky based on your inability to read what I actually posted.
 
I think the fact that we (Australia) aided in harboring and repairing confederate commerce raiders, such as the CSS Shenandoah, and that Confederates visited such towns as Ballarat, Victoria (site of Eureka stockade about a decade earlier)...they were especially prominent in Victoria overall and actually ended up recruiting volunteers in Melbourne.
 
Someone, perhaps Cook, commented on a thread with a similar question some months ago, noting that there were Confederates living in Queensland after the War.

I don't see that they would have much impact in any primarily White British colony, anymore than other group, unless they went in very large numbers, as they were usually culturally Anglo, so would assimiliate incredibly quickly. Plenty of American traders or adventurers settled in the various colonies with little issue IOTL.

Besides of which, at the time the Confederates would be arriving, the legal framework of their hosts would ensure that they could not implement crazy legislative programmes, assuming they had the power to do so.

However, it would be interesting to see what a large movement to the South African colonies would do. Natal and the Cape would have probably welcomed more Anglo immigrants, assuming there were jobs or opportunity available. A large Confederate Utilander population in the Transvaal would also be an interesting thought, although I would again suspect they would align with the British Utilanders
 
As others have pointed out South Africa is a much better bet. With a smaller white population the arrival of ex-Confederates would have much more effect and as for ex-Confederates taking over Australia remember there were quite a lot of white people there already, 1,539,552 in 1868 to be specific. Getting 2 million confederates would be pretty difficult considering there was only 5,582,222 free whites in the Confederate states in 1860.
 

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So a Confederate States of Australia?
Or in case of Africa, which I doubt they would go to, the Confederate States of Africa/ Confederate States of South Africa?
Imagine those naitons in WW1 or two, the USA enters the war, they both go the opposite way, or against the USA, leading to a biger and stronger Axis which would tangle up troops to deal with them attacking there colonies in Africa and Oceania. TIMELINE IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!! IM SO MAKING A TIMELINE!!

Dixie Reborn!! And imagine if the USA is on the losing side in ww1 OR ww2, it would most likely lose the South in a peace treaty and the Confederate States of America would be reborn. Its like a buffet of possibilities!
 
So a Confederate States of Australia?
Or in case of Africa, which I doubt they would go to, the Confederate States of Africa/ Confederate States of South Africa?
Imagine those naitons in WW1 or two, the USA enters the war, they both go the opposite way, or against the USA, leading to a biger and stronger Axis which would tangle up troops to deal with them attacking there colonies in Africa and Oceania. TIMELINE IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!! IM SO MAKING A TIMELINE!!

Dixie Reborn!! And imagine if the USA is on the losing side in ww1 OR ww2, it would most likely lose the South in a peace treaty and the Confederate States of America would be reborn. Its like a buffet of possibilities!

Well I doubt there would be a WW1 or 2 if there was a Confederate States of Australia or SA, too many butterflies
 
Stirling dies...

I started a rather unsuccessful thread a couple of days ago that maybe relevant..

If Captain Stirling died during the exploration of the Swan river (west coast) it is feasible the Dutch could have settled the west coast as a stop on the way to the east indies. Could/would they have actively attracted the confederates to the new colony? Or alternatively found an independant colony itself in a more remote area(not necessarily hostile) or buy one?

Just a thought...
 
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