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Make a Confederacy that gets along reasonably well with its neighbors, is a member of ALT-Nato (memories of the war of Southern Independence are no more relevant than memories of the Revolution are to US-British relations otl).

It has a reasonable standard of living of its citizens and has a comparable standard of living to the US and Canada.

It has dealt with its racial issues better than it did otl because they were stuck with all those black people who couldn't go North and didn't want to fight an insurgency every 25-50 years or so.

It includes at least the 11 original Confederate State minus West Virginia. And all of this has come about without any violent revolutions (lots of pressure is probably mandatory) and the CSA head of state is the direct successor to Jefferson Davis.
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