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Once upon a time, the legendary banned member MEJ posted a thread pondering how to make it so there was no Confederate nostalgia in the United States.

It quickly turned into a flamewar, but I posted a scenario attempting to honestly answer the question.

(Which, predictably, was ignored.)

Basically the Confederacy wins the Civil War and over the subsequent decades begins to experience various problems--slave revolts, the Boll Weevil, collapses in cotton prices due to competition with India and Egypt, the flight of poor whites due to abuses by planters (I can imagine trying to plantationize poor whites' land, especially once their own land is ruined by cotton).

Over the years, individual states break off and either rejoin the Union or trying to go it alone (probably Texas could manage the latter).

The idea is that the Confederates get enough rope to hang themselves and they do. The U.S. is reunited eventually, but nobody remembers the Confederacy with any fondness--it had gotten so dystopic nobody CAN defend it anymore.

Despite my title, I don't really have a full TL in mind. What do you all think?
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