Divided We Fall
These three flags were inspired by
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, an alternate history ebook revolving around a really implausible divided America scenario I still found really interesting. The novel sees a really terrible end to the Civil War, with a joint British-Confederate victory over the US clearing the way to an alternate 1960s where the North is once again a British colony, the West is either a component or a vassal state of the USSR and the only thing that saved the Confederacy from being completely dismantled by the Allies at the end of World War II was "the Serum", a compound created with the help of the Nazis that allowed them to chemically lobotomize large portions of their slave (!) population, giving the Confederate government control of an obedient land army large enough to tip the scales of the Cold War decisively in one side or the other. LBJ is president, the KKK is the Confederate secret police, it's a lot to unpack. Anyway, in my take on the scenario the Confederate victory sees the US cast into a state of national malaise and terminal decline, with the later secession of the State of Jefferson driving the rump nation close to Germany. World War I sees the defeat of Germany and the US, with the Germans falling into the chaos that will eventually birth the Nazi regime and the American government toppled in favor of a more pliant client state. The State of Jefferson, furious at what they perceive to be a betrayal by both sides back east move closer into the Soviet sphere, with World War II marking the beginning of the Second Great Game between the Soviets and the Brits and North America split into three mutually hostile and unstable pieces in the crosshairs.
-My take on the CSA flag combines aspects of the top three contenders for the first Confederate flag OTL.
-The flag of the State of Jefferson shows the influence of Deseret, one of the main drivers of the original Jeffersonian secession.
-The United States of New England is in the midst of an identity crisis to put it mildly, but at least they have the best record on race relations among the three.