CSA in the Modern Era

Doesn't Texas have considerable oil wealth? Any TL that relegates the CSA to a land of dirt scratching rednecks and hicks would do well to remember that.

It does, which may incline Texas to seek it's own independence. I can imagine the state government (or even a federal Texas) becoming a petrostate like Venezuela, propped up largely by oil revenues.
 
It does, which may incline Texas to seek it's own independence. I can imagine the state government (or even a federal Texas) becoming a petrostate like Venezuela, propped up largely by oil revenues.

That oil wealth doesn't begin until the 1900s, and it didn't enrich much besides a small group, though they were mostly "new money."

Most TLs imagine Texas independent much earlier based on cattle wealth. But without US markets in eastern cities, even that doesn't exist. You basically have to imagine a TX that will reconcile its differences with the US.

And any TL imagining a Rep of Texas had better be prepared to lose the Nueces strip, plus San Antonio and El Paso, to Mexico. The western panhandle originally wanted to be part of New Mexico anyway.
 
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