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Although to be honest those places were often threatened by the Union in OTL and faced some fierce fighting. Charlottesville has none of that and there is the historical connection as I mentioned.
Although to be honest those places were often threatened by the Union in OTL and faced some fierce fighting. Charlottesville has none of that and there is the historical connection as I mentioned.However, Williamsburg is halfway between Richmond and the Hampton Roads, the most critical population centers of Virginia
Although to be honest those places were often threatened by the Union in OTL and faced some fierce fighting. Charlottesville has none of that and there is the historical connection as I mentioned.
Then again Williamsburg isn't safe from the Union either given how close the city is to the James River and especially Norfolk and Hampton Roads. Plus the Americans never made a serious attempt at even capturing Charlottesville and it remained unscathed compared to the rest of Virginia in OTL.The Union would target whatever town was the state Capitol, really. It’s not like Charlottesville isn’t easy to march to from the Shenandoah with Harpers Ferry and the Alleghenies firmly in Union control and their other logistical advantages in any future conflict
Then again Williamsburg isn't safe from the Union either given how close the city is to the James River and especially Norfolk and Hampton Roads. Plus the Americans never made a serious attempt at even capturing Charlottesville and it remained unscathed compared to the rest of Virginia in OTL.
So what will the North American rugby leagues look like. Plus since the sport is British, the Confederates are likely to adopt the game as their own and might go with a hybrid between the original and the Canadian versions. The American rugby league will have franchises in New York, Boston, Buffalo, a New Jersey city, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City and Baltimore as well as Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, Denver and Las Vegas in the later decades. while the Canadian rugby league has their own franchises in Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, Winnipeg, Regina, Edmonton, Calgary, Halifax and Vancouver. The Confederate rugby league is likely to have franchises in Richmond, Norfolk, Louisville, Nashville, Memphis, Charleston, Atlanta, New Orleans, Jacksonville, Pensacola, Birmingham and North Carolina city with new teams in Dallas, Houston, Austin and one located in Sequoyah. The baseball leagues in America and the Confederacy will be similar as well.Well, there was no strategic advantage to be had in C’ville at the time. There would if it was the stage capital of Virginia.
either way, I’ve settled upon Williamsburg
So what will the North American rugby leagues look like. Plus since the sport is British, the Confederates are likely to adopt the game as their own and might go with a hybrid between the original and the Canadian versions. The American rugby league will have franchises in New York, Boston, Buffalo, a New Jersey city, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City and Baltimore as well as Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland in the later decades. while the Canadian rugby league has their own franchises in Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, Winnipeg, Regina, Edmonton, Calgary, Halifax and Vancouver. The Confederate rugby league is likely to have franchises in Richmond, Norfolk, Louisville, Nashville, Memphis, Charleston, Atlanta, New Orleans, Jacksonville, Pensacola, Birmingham and North Carolina city with new teams in Dallas, Houston, Austin and one located in Sequoyah.
Miami and Orlando are unlikely to be prominent since OTL versions became major cities due to Northern and Cuban expatriates as well as investment from corporations. New Orleans, Louisiana on the other hand is likely going to resemble Miami: A cosmopolitan, diverse city known for its nightlife, lights and partying as well as a Romance Catholic language being commonly spoken alongside English (Spanish/French). It also helps that New Orleans is the site of Mardi Gras one of the biggest celebrations in America.Haven’t thought that far ahead but probably more or less. Definitely won’t be one in Miami or Orlando, South Florida is going to have a very different trajectory in the 20th century without the retiree boom and Cuban expatriates
Miami and Orlando are unlikely to be prominent since OTL versions became major cities due to Northern and Cuban expatriates as well as investment from corporations. New Orleans, Louisiana on the other hand is likely going to resemble Miami: A cosmopolitan, diverse city known for its nightlife, lights and partying as well as a Romance Catholic language being commonly spoken alongside English (Spanish/French). It also helps that New Orleans is the site of Mardi Gras one of the biggest celebrations in America.
Well I'm talking a composite version of it. New Orleans has the characteristics of OTL Miami and it could go this way to an extent.New Orleans was already the biggest city in the CSA I see no reason for that to change substantially especially with the Mississippi being an international waterway now
Full Results: US Elections 1876
Unfortunately I was having a heck of a time finding some of the footnotes. Skimmed over them on the first read-through, and then had to go back and hunt for the numbers. Perhaps you could bold them in the text to make them stand out a little better? (Or change them to red; I've seen a couple other authors do that, too.)
Of course, went back and bolded them! I’ve been trying to make sure my footnotes are not italicized like the text is in the narrative updates but of course technical updates like these don’t get italicized
Umm, sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. I meant the inline numbers in the text, not the footnotes themselves.
I can expect that Confederate English will start to resemble British English and its offshoots Australian English and New Zealander English as well as borrow a loan word or two from French both the European and Cajun varieties. Given the Confederacy's affinity for Britain and France they would want their culture to be as culturally different from the United States as possible by adapting dialects of English and French as well as having the theatre scene based off the former. This mean words such as lorry and chips will become common in Confederate dictionaries.D’oh totally misread your post 😂
I can expect that Confederate English will start to resemble British English and its offshoots Australian English and New Zealander English as well as borrow a loan word or two from French both the European and Cajun varieties. Given the Confederacy's affinity for Britain and France they would want their culture to be as culturally different from the United States as possible by adapting dialects of English and French as well as having the theatre scene based off the former. This mean words such as lorry and chips will become common in Confederate dictionaries.
Also given that this timeline is quite extensive how about you convert this to PDF novel form like @Red_Galiray has done with Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War. Afterwards you can publish it to a wider audience when you're finished.
Perhaps. James Longstreet is going to be the Confederacy's savior given what we know what's going to happen.I might do that eventually. We're only 20 years in to the TL though there's plenty of wild ride left haha
So what is the Liberal Party anyway?"...as the telegram dispatches rolled in to Blaine's palatial new mansion in Washington, the tension was high deep into the night. Wisconsin and Missouri were within 1,000 votes each, both with Cox narrowly leading. Pennsylvania, the opposite - despite Randall on the Democratic ticket it looked like the Liberals would net her substantial prize of electoral votes by a margin of 700. In all, eleven of twenty-seven states were decided by less than 1% of the vote; four others were decided by less than 2%. All eyes landed on New York, where Blaine would only carry the day by the narrowest of margins, 6,000 votes out of 1.2 million. The Liberals won the state's 47 electoral votes and thus the election; it had been broadly predicted that whoever carried that state would carry the day. In the Cox camp there were recriminations galore; as the first Democratic ticket since 1860 not to feature a New Yorker on the ticket, the decision to place Randall as the running mate was totued as the reason for the defeat.
Really, though, there were dozens of reasons for Cox losing the electoral college narrowly while carrying the popular vote by only 22,000 votes [1]. The economy had improved substantially in Hendricks' day, but farmers still struggled and many Democrats found appeal in the reformism promised by the Liberals. Cox's own campaign had lacked clear stances on the issues, running rather on his experience, while Blaine's surrogates laid out a bold package of civil service reform, demagogued against an expanded money supply, promised to expand funding for the Navy and for public schools, and pledged to lower a number of tariffs. Cox was also hurt by not one but two left-wing campaigns, the first time that the rump Republican Party hemorrhaged Democratic rather than Liberal voters, as the Republican-Labor ticket peeled off voters in working class districts and the Anti-Monopoly Party led by California Senator Newton Booth spoke to Westerners. It may not have kept Cox from losing much of the Western bulwark, but it prevented him from peeling away states like Iowa or Kansas that were in the offing, and almost certainly cost him in states such as Pennsylvania and New York where Democrats lost by less than the R-L and A-M margins. [2]
If anything, skepticism about Blaine's coziness to railroad companies and his spending plans may have made him underrun the Liberal ticket more generally, which of course was also augmented by both Republican-Labor and Anti-Monopoly running a surprisingly broad slate of candidates in the industrial heartland as well as the West. The Liberals promised a new day and a new decade emerging out of the doldrums of the Great Depression - of a Protestant middle class ascendancy, of shopkeepers and entrepreneurs, founded in piety and prudence, rather than the corruption of the Tweed Ring or the tired Jacksonian imitators who made up the other wing of the opposition. Despite the perilously narrow results where a handful of votes the other way in but one or two states would have dramatically changed history, Blaine and his Liberals were now in charge in Washington..."
- Titan: The Life and Presidency of James G. Blaine (University of Ohio, 1980) [3]
[1] I'm sort of spitballing numbers here, I'm not doing actual state by state math on percentages and results
[2] Third parties doing what they do
[3] Date chosen to coincide with Blaine's 150th birthday