Military Occupation of the South into today

How could the military occupation of the Southern United States last ito present day. The POD is 1865 or after. I would love to see Bill Clinton military governor of Arkansas.
 
Even if Rutherford B. Hayes hadn't promised to end Reconstruction if elected and kept to his word, the longest I see any military occupation persisting is into the 1870s at some point.
 
OK, how about after a longer war, and more radical Lee, the US occupys the south from 1867 (Wars end) into the 1890s, during which time there are Democratic Militias patrolling, fighting with US forces and Carpetbagger militias. It continues, on a smaller scale, until the 1930s, when, with the depression, Rightists come to power in the south, and an armed revolt breaks out. After a civil war, in which Socialists, Republicans, and Populists must form a coalition, the south is occupied. It remains military controlled to this day, however, there are pockets of northern immigrants who have their own towns, patrolled by community watches.
 

Anaxagoras

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OK, how about after a longer war, and more radical Lee, the US occupys the south from 1867 (Wars end) into the 1890s, during which time there are Democratic Militias patrolling, fighting with US forces and Carpetbagger militias. It continues, on a smaller scale, until the 1930s, when, with the depression, Rightists come to power in the south, and an armed revolt breaks out. After a civil war, in which Socialists, Republicans, and Populists must form a coalition, the south is occupied. It remains military controlled to this day, however, there are pockets of northern immigrants who have their own towns, patrolled by community watches.

Pocket of Northern immigrants? Under these circumstances, why on Earth would anyone from the North want to immigrate to the South?
 

katchen

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The same Red Shirts and "Redeemers" that terrorized African-Americans out of voting in the 1890s and 1900s were perfectly capable, not only of mounting guerilla operations against US troops in the South ala the Irish Republican Army if occupation continued, but of mounting terrorist operations in Northern cities as well. Which is very likely what would have happened--until like the British in Ireland, the US Government was forced to withdraw it's troops and permit the old Confederacy to regain at least "free state" or "commonwealth" status or possibly full independence.
In truth, open-ended military occupation would have turned the South into what Ireland became for the United Kingdom.
 
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