Historical Atlas of North America

This is cool; my one thought is how could this CSA ever be strong enough to challenge the USA?
It's not really, the Union's simply had some bad luck. They won in 1875, and lost a little in 1893, when the British and French (to preserve the balance of power) blockaded American ports and generally messed things up. The next war however, will be quite different.
 

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Interesting. The main difference is that you give all of Idaho to Montana (Idaho is an unlikely name, as it appears to have been made up), while I gave bits of it to Washington. I think that was a proposal (mine, that is) in OTL in 1887 (well, actually the South would have gone to Nevada. Interesting idea that. Would radically change Nevada as a state). Are Utah's are a little different, but that's to be expected, the exact shape of Utah territory was always a little iffy, as the Mormons had the numbers for a state long before they had the political will. Super long Nebraska is weird but the only logical thing to do.

Actually you have that a bit backwards. Idaho is a made-up name, but it was made up by somebody in Congress jolly early on, and they kept insistently trying to apply it to several newly created things before finally getting to use it for the state that got the name in OTL. So it's actually quite likely it would be used.

EDIT--from the Genocide:

In the early 1860s, when the United States Congress was considering organizing a new territory in the Rocky Mountains, eccentric lobbyist George M. Willing suggested the name "Idaho," which he claimed was derived from a Shoshone language term meaning "the sun comes from the mountains" or "gem of the mountains". Willing later claimed that he had made up the name himself.[9][10] Congress ultimately decided to name the area Colorado Territory when it was created in February 1861. Thinking they would get a jump on the name, locals named a community in Colorado "Idaho Springs".
Lake Coeur d'Alene in North Idaho

However, the name "Idaho" did not go away. The same year Congress created Colorado Territory, a county called Idaho County was created in eastern Washington Territory. The county was named after a steamship named Idaho, which was launched on the Columbia River in 1860. It is unclear whether the steamship was named before or after Willing's claim was revealed. Regardless, a portion of Washington Territory, including Idaho County, was used to create Idaho Territory in 1863.
 
What do you guys want to see next? The Mormon march to the sea? The Pacific Coast? Theodore Roosevelt and the last Great Cavalry War? British intervention in new England? The Ohio Front?

Excerpted From Historical Atlas of North America: Chapter 17 - The Socialist Revolution said:
The Confederates Surprise attack on Washington D.C. was not in fact that surprising. Although President Hanna had firmly believed that Braxton would respect internal Union affairs just as he had done to Richmond during the Houston affair, he did not realzie the depth of the hate the Confederacy harbored for the union, quite unlike the Union's general desire to ignore the Confederacy. The Union's spies in the Confederacy had quickly learned of the Confederate troop movements to the Potomac. However, with the chaotic transition to the Provisional Government after Hanna's resignation, this was lost in the confusion. Theodore Roosevelt was not even told that he was President until three days before the Confederates stormed Washington! With most American soldiers either already deserters or stationed in the cities to keep down revolutionary activity, America's once great defense empalcements were mostly abandoned. The Pinkertons, probably the unions greatest intelligence source throughout North America were in disarray, with agents being hunted throughout the country, and the President of the Company lynched in his Chicago home. When Confederate troops crossed the Potomac on fourth of May, Washington was hardly defended.

After a desultory attempt to prevent Confederate cavalry from entering the city, union forces quickly routed in a chaotic movement northward along the railways. The remaining civil servants attempted to pay thier way forward, crowding the railroad to no avail, the Confederated were quick behind. The most desperate to escape were African Americans, who by now made up a large portion of the population of the City. Many were killed by advancing Confederate troops. With the White House burning in the background, General Wilcox's forces pursued the union forces to Baltimore, where they once again routed any union resistance. An effort to organize the fleeing union troops and provide resistance at Abingdon just north of Baltimore did slow down the Confederates, however it was unable to stem the advance of the South.

To the west, Confederate armies had also advanced into Western Virginia and Maryland, destroying the mostly abandoned Union fortifications. union citizens dynamited many railways and roads as the Confederates sought to climb the Appalachians, slowing down their advance, but did not provide an opposing military force. With the Confederates advancing up the Mississippi and through Oklahoma, Braxton's prediction of a long war seemed assuredly wrong.

Although many historians and rightists have wondered if, had he been warned slightly earlier, Theodore Roosevelt would have been able to rally the Union's Provisional Armies and defend the United States, he did not, and it was not clear who was in control of any union forces at this time. It was this gap the Worker's Committees so skillfully used to seize control of the United States. Worker's Committees in Washington D.C. and Baltimore had already fought Confederate troops in their respective areas, already mobilized to fight the union troops, and had provided stiff resistance, foricing Confederate soldiers to perform Urban Warfare, they had not been organized. Here, the fact that the WCs had the support of both the National Railworkers Union, the American Railway Union, and the Telegraphers Protective League, allowed them organize the movements of hundreds of volunteer militias. The WCs seized control of a broad swathe of land from Philadelphia to New York, and immediately set about organizing a defense of Philadelphia from the Confederates. Rushing southwards, the first Worker's Militias met the Confederates at Newark Delaware. Many were veterans of the Third Confederate-Union War and immediately set about constructing trenches. The Confederates unprepared for such stiff resistance and with stretched supply lines (the Railways having been blown up by WC allied NRU and ARW forces) were forced to retreat across the Susquehanna river. The battle of Newark is notably confusing to modern history students for two reasons: Firstly, it did not take place int the well known Newark, but in Newark, DE; secondly, most of the defenders were actually from Wilmington and the surrounding area, a fact which goes against the popular image of brave Philadelphians defending the union from Confederate forces as immortalized in such Cinematics as "the Bloody Dawn". This is a continuing source of frustration to Delawareans, a frustration met mostly with confusion by other Americans.

The WCs thus provided the first clear victories against the invading Confederates, rallying many to their cause. The WC propaganda printers created thousands of posters and fliers that stated, "Join your union, fight for the Union!" and, "When you fight for the White and Blue, you fight for the Reds too!" Many Americans suspicious of the Socialists message of equality understood their fight for the North and the defeat of the hated South. Whole companies of soldiers moved to the WCs side, and with Chicago having organized the national WC Syndic, red forces moved to contain the Confederates, preventing further advances in the Appalachians by organizing the remaining soldiers and Miner's unions. The WCs were also incredibly skilled at converting factories to war work. The use of Industrial Democracy and the general feeling among Industrial Workers of the value of their work allowed conversion at a much faster pace than in previous war efforts.

The WCs were severely hamstrung in certain ways, however. The lack of a strong command structure and officer corp (most officers had moved to join Roosevelt in the west or Lodge in the Northeast), prevented the WCs from organizing an advance to reclaim Baltimore or Washington D.C. Elected officers and militias were well able to defend, but found it difficult to advance.

The Confederates however also suffered difficulties. Braxton had not realized how quickly he would be able to advance into the United States, and his plan for a decisive victory to force the U.S. to meet at the negotiating table (see figure 17.7 "Confederate War Aims") met the critical problem of not having anyone to negotiate with. Refusing to recognize the WCS in (not that Chicago would have wanted to negotiate anyways), and with the provisional Government defunct, Braxton was left with a war with undefined aims, undefined enemies, and undefined means. Guerrilla resistance in conquered territories proved a drag on the Confederate advance, and after the purges of 1895 and 1896, the Confederates had lost much of their much vaunted commanders. The Confederate forces, overconfident from the easy successes at Washington and Baltimore, often advanced without direction or purpose, a problem not helped by Braxton's famous disinterest in governing. The Confederates crossed the Chesapeake, hoping to seize Wilmington and Philadelphia from the South, but failed to supply themselves or organize themselves effectively allowing a small force of Worker's militias to prevent an advance beyond the edge of the Eastern Shore.

The WCs ability to present themselves as the effective resistor of Southern Invasion convinced many in the remaining union Navy to join the WCs. This was fortunate, for the remainder of the Potomac Fleet had been disastrously defeated by the Confederate Navy at Cornfield Harbor. The hastily organized "Worker's Navy" moved to face the Confederates at Cape Charles. Although the WN had some success they were unable to press the advantage further, and Norfolk remained safe for Confederates. The Norths traditional advantage on the seas would take several years to reassert itself.
 
And the map:

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I just want to say that I like maps, and I like socialism, so I'm happy to see this here. I used to spend hours staring at my parent's historical atlas of the world when I was a teenager, and I may be able to get just as involved in this one eventually.

PS: I just have one question: how did the Yukon end up as Yellowstone? I always think of Yellowstone as referring to a National Park in the US, or is the etymology of this Yellowstone completely different?
 
This isn't a TL about a Socialist Utopia or anything. One of the few things I can promise about this TL's future is that the Red USA will be a worse place to live then ours. Just as a result of being born in an awful awful civil war. This TL doesn't have an ideological bent, I think. Or maybe a little one, but i do hope there are people who like this TL who aren't socialists!

Edit: Not that there's anything wrong with being a socialist, I am one! I'm just rather pessimistic about the outcomes of violent revolutions creating a socialist state. violent revolutions have a pretty low success rate generally, no matter what ideology you push for. The reason I'm making this TL is that I'm fascinated by alternative ways to organize systems, and I hope to (at some point) talk about how Red America organizes itself. It will not be USSR style socialism but in America.
 
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Count me as one, sir. This is amazing.

And to have my fellow brave Delawareans turning back the evil Southrons fills my heart with joy, even if I'd be just as frustrated as the rest that Philly stole the credit. ;)
 
Yeah, I'm certainly not a capital-S socialist in any sense of the word, and that was not what I meant when I said I "like socialism". What I really mean is that I like seeing alternative politics, and I prefer the socialist side of alternative politics to the fascist side (not to say that there are only two sides, they're just the two that I can think of most readily due to them exerting large amounts of power during the 20th century).

So I guess I should have said "I like seeing socialism in TLs, especially in countries that haven't experimented with it too much in OTL"
 
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