I'm in a bad mood.
Why We Fought
One of the biggest misconceptions about the confederacy was that it was an attempt at nation building. From that perspective, the thought of "Why didn't the CSA just go and free their slaves to have more soldiers to fight the US?" Indeed, folks such as Patrick Cleburne, one of the most important generals in the CSA, proposed just that and was repeatedly shot down until his death.
That's because the CSA was never about statebuilding.
The CSA was about conquest.
Farming and agriculture in the confederate style was inherently wasteful. The CSA didn't really participate in the concept of crop rotation or anything else like that, and therefore constantly required new land. Indeed, by the time the civil war was rolling around, much of Georgia at least was being farmed out of oblivion. What was once a thick black coating of some of the most fertile topsoil to be had was eroded away to the red Georgia clay that is famous today. In the instance of a Confederate victory, there would be even more overexploitation of the soil, and an even greater need for more land.
The year is 1940. The CSA has massively expanded across the globe. (I was gonna have the CSA control the whole world but I stopped having fun making this so I just went and stopped it as is). The world is arranged on a heirarchy, based on how close one is to the "Southern Ideal" of an English descended Southerner that emerged in areas such as Charleston, Richmond, or Savannah. Every other person, every other culture only had a "right to exist" as long as it pleased this elite. The late 1800's ideal of slavery has been replaced by a kind of "societal serfdom" where instead of most people being property, a small number of extremely powerful families that beloned to the Southern Ideal essentially have free rein to do whatever they want with whoever they want however the want with the strength of a hypermilitarized state apparatus behind their every move. Poor members of the Southern Ideal and the upper members of this apparatus make up what could be considered a middle class. This ultimately doesn't mean much, as the "middle class" doesn't have many rights to do things. However, they are also mostly free from harassment by the Upper Class. The lower class is essentially the collective property of the upper class. Their lives only exist in conjuction with the upper class. Contrary to popular belief, while "nonwhite people" make up a significant chunk of this population, they are not the only ones in this population. Indeed, anyone that doesn't have strong connections with the Southern Ideal or are members of the Southern Ideal themselves are generally considered to be this lower class. Interestingly enough, many "highland southerners" are members of the lower class, while most of what OTL are known as the "Five Civilized Tribes" are members of the Southern Ideal. Indeed, as Christianity becomes more and more associated with submission and femininity (Rome was essentially burned to the ground by Confederate forces in Europe.) a kind of vaguely Native American agnostic spiritualism has become the most popular religion among the Southern Ideal. Meanwhile, as medical technology got better, areas that were once unsettlable due to diseases became prime areas for colonization by the Southern Ideal. Much of Tropical Africa, which both had a tropical climate that fostered year round agriculture along with being seen as "terra incognita" meant that it was a prime area for Southern expansion. The structure of government is extremely unitary and strict, with members of the Upper Class being the only ones allowed to vote, and states being only mere administrative districts. Anyone who even began talking about "states rights" quickly found themselves demoted out of the Southern Ideal and shipped off to Oregon or South America where they wouldn't "cause any trouble."
I was gonna go into detail more about society, but, like, I kind of hated making this. I just wanted to make a CSA victory map that really highlighted how an extremely expansionist CSA would
actually go.