General Non-Executable TL and Ideas Thread

This shall become a general ad-hoc TL and ideas thread. Any ideas you spontaneously have, but lack the time or courage or anything else to write an elaborated TL on, can go here!
 
Based on my AH quote explanation:

The UK entered the Civil war on the side of the CSA and the latter "won" the war, achieving independence. But in 1872, when states' rights were no longer taken seriously in Richmond and Philadelphia was getting more and more militarised (Lincoln ironically lived!), Texas seceded.
When the First Confederate Civil War started, Kentucky troops openly refused to fight far away in Texas and the state seceded from the CSA. Kentucky joined the Union and Texas seceded into independence of its own, but only after a two-front civil war bled the Confederacy white until 1881. As if that was not enough, Florida and Arkansas now declared secession as they didn't see "the safety of their states guaranteed". The Confederacy had to agree - under the condition that the two don't join the Union for 15 years, which was de jure kept to, but de facto ignored (imagine West Berlin in relation to West Germany), causing riots by hardline Democratic planters.
The "Deep South", i.e. what was left (Alabama, Mississippi, Lousiana, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee) went nigh-fascist. It was not associated with an ideology, but the Confederate military quasi-dictators (Jeff Davis 1861-1867, Robert E. Lee 1867-1879, and now Braxton Bragg) became ever harsher and more oppressive. Slave revolts, which were frequent, were punished by killing every slave involved. Not immediately, though, but by making them work under inhumane conditions sometimes worse than OTL Gulag (e.g. giving them only the bare minimum of freedom of movement necessary for their work), as immediate killings were considered "damaging to the national economy".
Never did the CSA truly industrialise, either, despite (or because?) the Boll Weevil was valiantly fought by Mexico and Texas and thus did not have a chance to cross the Mississippi. But despite the harsh punishments and laws, in 1884, a major revolt including elements of proto-Marxism and proto-Bakuninism (nobody called themselves a "communist", though) broke out and, alas!, the governor of Mississippi (from a new "Golden Value Movement") refused to enforce those laws, instead letting the "revolt" spread and even employing the slaves in (pittance-wage) work contracts. The Governor of Georgia and of Virginia (the latter from the "Moderate Party") soon followed suit, the North Carolinan enforcement was there, but remained pretty lax, too.

But the hardline Democratic governor of South Carolina, Lloyd Tilghman, was absolutely determined to end this "Red scourge on our beloved country" and said this as he had arrived in front of what was frequently called the "Slaver's House" or "Blue House" (although officially "Presidential Place of Residence - PPR"), ready to coup out POTCS Braxton Bragg who, in Tilghman's opinion, "let lax enforcement of laws slide and thus sold out our lovely country to godless communists".

The coup on February 15, 1885 worked out, but only for a short time as slaves, Golden Value supporters, Moderates, and even Bragg supporters cooperated to have at least Bragg reinstalled as he was the rightful POTCS. On March 1 to 3, Confederate-wide, the "March to Richmond" and an additional "March to Charleston" couped out Tilghman and temporarily put Bragg back into office. The 'Grand Coalition' broke apart, but the Golden Value Movement supporters stayed by the slave freedom fighters - or "traitors" as Tilghman et al. put it - and many Golden Value former slaveholders manumitted their slaves and employed them. And thus, in Spring of 1885, the revolt was stronger than ever before and little sugarcane, cotton or tobacco had been planted. Nobody was now able to stop those - from March 4 under hawkish left-wing (in OTL perspective: Christian Democratic) POTUS Charles Sumner - Union-supported "communists". In the summer and autumn, the Confederate economy went down the swanny, mass defections occurred in what remained of an "army" and in the National Guard as Alabama flat out refused to pay their National Guard in August and September and Tennessee did so in July and September. By Christmas 1885, the Confederate States of America had been overrun by rebels (the Moderates and the Army and National Guard defectors had joined or rejoined the rebels) and only a few islands of CSA control remained. Richmond had long been stormed already, Bragg was "deported" to Pensacola.

The CSA thus achieved non-existence and the Union, not even bothering with military occupation except in the case of South Carolina, reintegrated the "new" states, giving them some more autonomy than a 'normal' state of the Union. Later on, in the 1900s, the autonomy was - step by step - withdrawn. But due to the left-wing (social Democrat to outright communist) nature of the rebellions and thus of the governors and officials of the Former Confederate States (FCSs), more left-wing influence in the USA, less "Red Scare" panicmongering, and much more racial equality from 1881, but at the least from 1884 onwards, was forever after to remain. The US of the 1910s to today is under the influence of what is still today called the Golden Party (sometimes still Golden Values, or Golden Workers' Party) whose opposition is a right-wing Republican Union Party. Well-known for the Golden Party are the "three-and-one-term" presidency, the Steve H. Maciere one 1909-1921 and 1929-1933, the four-term Enrico Torgniamo Presidency of 1953-1969 and the ongoing 'Social People's Platform' (you could call it left-wing populism) presidency of Mohammad Bakahasab (2005-...)
Calling any Party "Democratic Party" would get the party about as shunned as if one in OTL would openly call an American party "Stalinist Workers' Party" or "Trotskyist Revolutionary Party".

List of Presidents of the United States - A Two-And-A-Half Party System

1861-1869: Abraham Lincoln (R)
1869-1873: Thaddeus Stevens (R)
1873-1881: Charles Sumner (R)

1881-1885: James G. Blaine (D)
1885-1893: James B. McPherson (R)
1893-1901: Hiram G. Berry (R)
1901-1905: Amiel W. Whipple (R)

1905-1909: Bishop Polk (D)
1909-1921: Steve H. Maciere (GV)
1921-1925: Martin Aurelius Diocle (D)
1925-1929: Theodore A. McBride (RU)
1929-1933: Steve H. Maciere (GV)

1933-1941: Albert R. Schuster (RU)
1941-1945: Cristo M. "Cristobal" Balotelli (GV) - first black (but Afro-Brazilian) POTUS

1945-1949: Isaac M. Solter (IW) - First African-American POTUS
1949-1953: Roberto A. Firmino (RU)
1953-1969: Enrico Torgniamo (G)

1969-1977: Richard R. Churchner (RU)
1977-1985: Chris A. Waimsley (IW)

1985-1993: Francesc "Franco" Omar Miguel Santilliman (G) - First "Hispanic" POTUS
1993-2003: Hope P. Okagbare (RU) - first "native" African POTUS
2003-2005: Chinedu Nturuka Asumnu (RU)
2005-2025: Mohammad Bakahasab (G) - first openly Muslim POTUS

List of Presidents of the Confederate States of America:


1861-1867: Jefferson Davis (non-partisan)
1867-1879: Robert E. Lee (non-partisan)
1879-1881: Braxton Bragg (Democratic/non-partisan)
1881: Lloyd Tilghman (Democratic)
1881-1885: Braxton Bragg (non-partisan)
 
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I would say that anybody can - at their own discretion, but with giving credit - expand or add onto the TL ideas given here. At least on mine...
 
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