DBWI-Texas joins the CSA

Portugal has been ahead of the CSA for a long time, even before the 1970s. The CSA is where Portugal was , what maybe 1940 or so?

About 1948-49, I think. African-Americans in Dixie are, thankfully, no longer victims of state-sanctioned discrimination and are truly getting the chance to be able to fully participate in society since the end of the '80s, but there's still a lot of residual racism left, especially from the sons and daughters of those former Rhettian/Milesian/Yanceyite planters who didn't leave for Rhodesia, Transvaal or New Wessex when the shit hit the fan.

Portugal, on the other hand, was showing tendencies towards egalitarianism as early as 1942, when the first Creole Prime Minister was elected on the heels of support for the new President of Brazil, also a Creole. I realize a lot of this early action was in reaction to the situation at the time but it was still a major step forward. Also, I'd like to point out, too, that Britain elected an Indian PM in 1956 & a Jamaican in 1967, France an Algerian in 1974 & a Lebanese in 1988, Italy a Serbian President in 1979, New Zealand a Maori woman in 1969, and Canadian voters put two First Nations people in office, once in 1967 and again in 1992; the latter a woman. Even Australians elected an Aboriginal PM in 1989, and they're one of the more conservative of the (non-South African) Commonwealth members!

And we elected an African-American president for a term in 1988 here in the Union.....whereas even the Second Confederate Republic has yet to elect any minorities or women to the highest position in the office. In fact, there was one Hispanic congressman from Hockley, West Florida, elected in 1982.....and he was half-German. And only won 55% of the vote. Despite being somewhat conservative and about as pale as could be.

OOC: Hockley, West Florida, btw, is on the eastern side of Mobile Bay opposite the city of Mobile; this city would be in Alabama if it existed in our world.
 
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About 1948-49, I think. African-Americans in Dixie are, thankfully, no longer victims of state-sanctioned discrimination and are truly getting the chance to be able to fully participate in society since the end of the '80s, but there's still a lot of residual racism left, especially from the sons and daughters of those former Rhettian/Milesian/Yanceyite planters who didn't leave for Rhodesia, Transvaal or New Wessex when the shit hit the fan.

Portugal, on the other hand, was showing tendencies towards egalitarianism as early as 1942, when the first Creole Prime Minister was elected on the heels of support for the new President of Brazil, also a Creole. I realize a lot of this early action was in reaction to the situation at the time but it was still a major step forward. Also, I'd like to point out, too, that Britain elected an Indian PM in 1956 & a Jamaican in 1967, France an Algerian in 1974 & a Lebanese in 1988, Italy a Serbian President in 1979, New Zealand a Maori woman in 1969, and Canadian voters put two First Nations people in office, once in 1967 and again in 1992; the latter a woman. Even Australians elected an Aboriginal PM in 1989, and they're one of the more conservative of the (non-South African) Commonwealth members!

And we elected an African-American president for a term in 1988 here in the Union.....whereas even the Second Confederate Republic has yet to elect any minorities or women to the highest position in the office. In fact, there was one Hispanic congressman from Hockley, West Florida, elected in 1982.....and he was half-German. And only won 55% of the vote. Despite being somewhat conservative and about as pale as could be.

OOC: Hockley, West Florida, btw, is on the eastern side of Mobile Bay opposite the city of Mobile; this city would be in Alabama if it existed in our world.

I was talking economically not socially. My point is that it will take years and years for the CSA to meet First World standards.
 
IC: I'm also wondering, too, what other effects Texas joining might have on the C.S.A.; OTL, many Texans retained a sense of cultural independence(including the "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" mentality), but also was surprisingly diverse, with a fair number of Poles, Czechs, Irish(mainly Anglican), western Germans (and a few communitarian Prussians), and Jewish folks in the Hill Country, a few Sicilians in Galveston, the Swiss in Austin and Dallas, not to mention the Tejanos.

Unfortunately, I'd be liable to suspect that many of these ethnic minorities would be considered a liability by most of the prominently WASP C.S. elite, but is it perhaps possible that a less reactionary Confederacy might be more willing to tolerate and even possibly accept these minorities(or at least the "white" ones, anyway, maybe even including a few of the Sicilians and Tejanos), than our world's First C.S. Republic was(outside of the relatively liberal New Orleans and a select few other areas)?

I would suspect, however, that would require a major weakening of the influence of men such as Robert B. Rhett III or Jebediah Tillman, Sr.(son of President Ben Tillman, and Mississippi Congressman), both not only very pro-slavery, but also hardcore nativists as well(a combination which went hand-in-hand all too often in the 1890-1916 period.), or even butterflying their histories(or even being born at all, like in the case of Mr. Tillman), though I'm interested to hear other ideas on that as well.

Though it's also possible that some of the Central European immigration that came straight to Texas during the 1860s and '70s might not happen at all, depending on the circumstances; maybe they'd end up in places like Chicago or New York or even the state of California(a veritable rainbow of diversity in its own right IOTL).
 
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