The thread about when and how the Confederacy would abolish slavery had a number of posters speculate about the end of slavery causing a Confederate civil war, slave revolts, and a potential breakup.
Could such a breakup happen? Might we see some Southern states, i.e. Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama becoming independent black republics, with their white populations largely fleeing?
I could also see Texas becoming independent. But what of the rest of the states? A rump Confederacy, such as the Carolinas plus Georgia and Florida? Might some re-join the Union at some point, like Virginia, Tennessee and Arkansas, especially considering that the former two had large unionist populations?