Slave-based industrialism takes hold in the south during the early XIX Century
-Factories and railroads are built using slave labor and growth manages to equal that of the north.
-The Boll Weevil comes in earlier and ravages the southern cotton industry. Southern planters are forced to diversify their crops, producing hemp, peanuts, rice, dyes, and even wine.
-The Civil War happens a bit later than OTL, around 1865. The CSA manages to take and hold Missouri, Kentucky, New Mexico, and Maryland. Washington is captured.
-A CS attack northwards comes within only a few miles of the new union capital of Philadelphia. The south is pushed back, but northern attacks prove fruitless.
-Trenches form along the fronts in southern Pennsylvania, Delaware, southern Ohio, and Kansas. Western New Mexico is a major mobile front, full of irregular, multisided warfare between the CSA and USA, and Mexican and Indian raiders.
-Both north and south put up a tremendous fight, and the war seems to go on and on without a clear winner.
-The CSA supports a Mormon rebellion in Utah, which wreaks havoc on Union lines in the far west. This is accompanied by a major Confederate attack in Ohio which takes Columbus.
-Confederate agents burn New York City.
-After the Mormon rebellion is brutally put down, the Union is incensed with a new resolve. The CSA is pushed out of Columbus in 1874 and major advances occur in the west.
-After the horrors of the Confederate slave-driven war machine are exposed in the north, the war is framed with a moral purpose.
-The late 1870s are characterized by the slow rollback of Confederate forces from northern territory. In 1879, Washington is retaken, which skyrockets Union morale. Confederate forces set up the "Lee Line" in northern Virginia and concentrate forces in the Ohio river to defend Kentucky.
-In 1881, the CS Navy is completely obliterated, and the Union sets up a blockade. In 1883, New Orleans in taken in a major landing.
-In the mid-1880s, the CSA begins to fall apart. A Union invasion of Texas prompts the state to secede from the Confederacy and negotiate a cease-fire. Missouri surrenders soon after, and when Texas begins a genocidal campaign against the Comanche in its territory, the Indian Territory secedes from the CSA, becoming the US state of Sequoyah.
-By 1886, Vicksburg, Mississippi is taken, and Arkensas surrenders. Louisiana is overwhelmed. At the same time, the line in Kentucky breaks, the CS abandons the state, and Union troops pour through. The front shifts to Tennessee.
-In 1887, Florida surrenders after a Union landing.
-In 1888, a massive slave revolt sweeps across the remaining CS states. By the end of the year the conventional armies have all surrendered.
-For decades afterwards, the remaining southern whites, now ultra-racist and ultra-nationalist wackos who have grown used to the twenty-three year war, continue guerrilla resistance.
-Reconstruction results in a complete transformation of southern society and an obliteration of the former white culture. The process of readmitting the former CS states only begins in the 1930s.