Georgia in a Confederate Victory TL.

Since the CSA attains it's independence before Sherman gets to the state, what is the state of the cities of Atlanta, Columbus, Savannah, Macon and Augusta?

What are the politics of the state between the CSA's *Democrat and *Whig parties?

Does Atlanta develope similarly to OTL with it's original infrastructure intact?
 
Can you define what you mean the parties to stand for these two parties are always used in Confederate timelines (I do the same) but every time line has slightly different values.

Example
base the two parties off of the 1830's and 40's parties
The Southern Democrats=Jacksonian Democrats
Whigs= Whigs
I also have a Radical part called the Fire Eaters Founded by Robert Rhett who push a KKKish social system and States Rights above all else, they also support adopting the Rhett constitution of 1861 (they don't get many votes outside of South Carolina, or haven't yet)
 
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Can you define what you mean the parties to stand for these two parties are always used in Confederate timelines (I do the same) but every time line has slightly different values.

Example
base the two parties off of the 1830's and 40's parties
The Southern Democrats=Jacksonian Democrats
Whigs= Whigs
I also have a Radical part called the Fire Eaters Founded by Robert Rhett who push a KKKish social system and States Rights above all else, they also support adopting the Rhett constitution of 1861 (they don't get many votes outside of South Carolina, or haven't yet)

My basis for the two Confederate political parties are based on the Pro-Davis and Anti-Davis factions in the CS government.

So after 1867 or so there are the Nationalist/Fire-Eater/State's Rights Confederate Democratic Party. And on the other side of the isle there is the direct decendant of the anti-Davis faction, the slightly Centralist/Moderate/Whiggish Confederate Liberty/Independence/Whig party as the oppostion.

Back to the point, how different does Atlanta and Savannah, or the whole state of Georgia in general look from OTL?
 
Can you define what you mean the parties to stand for these two parties are always used in Confederate timelines (I do the same) but every time line has slightly different values.

Example
base the two parties off of the 1830's and 40's parties
The Southern Democrats=Jacksonian Democrats
Whigs= Whigs
I also have a Radical part called the Fire Eaters Founded by Robert Rhett who push a KKKish social system and States Rights above all else, they also support adopting the Rhett constitution of 1861 (they don't get many votes outside of South Carolina, or haven't yet)


At least three 1) Democrats 2) Whigs and later 3) and whatever the Fire-Eaters call themselves. Quite likely you will have a Socialist or Communist type party later when the economy remains crappy for decades.
 
Milledgeville will remain the Georgian capital for a while, at least. I could see Georgia being one of the big wheels in the CS government and the root of at least one of at least four possible regionalist blocs that would exist with any political parties, given how many of the CSA's founders were Georgians, and if the CSA winds up managing to create a lasting civil government Georgia would be one geographic stronghold of the super-states' rights crowd. As far as Georgia's development as a state...Savannah would be one of the big Atlantic ports of an independent Confederacy and something of a rival to Charleston in this regard. Atlanta would remain a major rail hub and probably expand in this regard in any independent CSA.

Georgia would have issues with at least three big cultural divisions among Georgian whites, with Georgian slaves being a fourth spoke of the wheel and one that is not necessarily fond of or getting along well with any of the white factions. There would be the urban-commercial set in Atlanta and Savannah which would naturally favor policies that favor the big cities. There would be rural divisions between the more rugged highland north with its smaller-scale pockets of Unionism (which would be a bit of a potential issue in inter-state politics), and the more flatland southern edge of the state, in all classes. There would also be the planter aristocracy used to dominating the state which would have even in 1862 an established tradition of butting heads with Richmond.
 
Milledgeville will remain the Georgian capital for a while, at least. I could see Georgia being one of the big wheels in the CS government and the root of at least one of at least four possible regionalist blocs that would exist with any political parties, given how many of the CSA's founders were Georgians, and if the CSA winds up managing to create a lasting civil government Georgia would be one geographic stronghold of the super-states' rights crowd. As far as Georgia's development as a state...Savannah would be one of the big Atlantic ports of an independent Confederacy and something of a rival to Charleston in this regard. Atlanta would remain a major rail hub and probably expand in this regard in any independent CSA.

Georgia would have issues with at least three big cultural divisions among Georgian whites, with Georgian slaves being a fourth spoke of the wheel and one that is not necessarily fond of or getting along well with any of the white factions. There would be the urban-commercial set in Atlanta and Savannah which would naturally favor policies that favor the big cities. There would be rural divisions between the more rugged highland north with its smaller-scale pockets of Unionism (which would be a bit of a potential issue in inter-state politics), and the more flatland southern edge of the state, in all classes. There would also be the planter aristocracy used to dominating the state which would have even in 1862 an established tradition of butting heads with Richmond.

Very interesting Snake. Though, will Atlanta still become the state capitol as it did in OTL? The city in terms of importance and power is going to dwarf Milledgeville before too long.
 
Very interesting Snake. Though, will Atlanta still become the state capitol as it did in OTL? The city in terms of importance and power is going to dwarf Milledgeville before too long.

It did that IOTL from the swollen population due to wartime refugees. In a peacetime CSA the process will be slower and if this happens it'd be around the 20th Century. CS demographics will be different than that of the OTL South, and I would believe the CSA would urbanize faster than the OTL South did but it would have relatively few cities for quite some time. Its economy over time will also develop in an idiosyncratic fashion whose only approximate examples are South Africa in terms of ultimate racial demographics and the intended purpose of the ideology in question and the USSR in terms of deliberately orienting itself in total hostility to the track record of its own time.....and not even a CS Stalin would make the CSA for slavery what the USSR was for Communism. In fact a CS Stalin would wind up more Saddam Hussein than Stalin.
 
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