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The AH question itself is in the last two paragraphs, but the other paragraphs give valuable background information on the timeline itself.
I am writing a timeline for a nation sim in which the Confederacy manages to win the Civil War. In this timeline the US ends up firing the first shot of the war (not exactly sure how at this point, open to suggestions), provoking an even more stronger backlash from the border states. The Maryland draft riots end up being more violent and deadly than in our timeline, with the rail lines through Baltimore being burned down to disrupt troop movements into DC. Delaware attempts to declare neutrality in the war, but it is seen as being vulnerable to secessionist influences and ends up under a strong US military occupation like Maryland did in real life.
You can see a map of the world in 1950 (when the game starts) here. The North American nations include Canada (which includes the Alaska Purchase), the Confederacy (which keeps West Virginia and includes Maryland and other border states allowed to join the CSA after the end of war by referendum), Texas (an early 1900s breakaway from the CSA) and Pacifica (a breakaway from the US during the Civil War era). As another important note for the timeline, North America does not suffer any war after the end of the American Civil War. The Great War still happens along similar lines to real life except for a Central Powers victory and the nonintervention of the US and its breakaways.
One of the issues for the 1860s part of the timeline is how political parties in North America develop after the war, seeing as the areas of the divided US tended to be heavily one party? The CSA is never going to vote Republican, and United States is going to view the Democrats as either traitors the party of peace, depending on when the US ends its war with the CSA. While one party rule is basically guaranteed for a few years after the war, it seems unlikely that it will continue like that indefinitely. What would be the new source of political divisions in the Confederacy, Pacifica, and the United States through to 1950.
In a somewhat related question (being a political issue), our timeline's Washington state is going to be a strategically vital but obviously very vulnerable area, being sandwiched between Pacifica and the British. I see it as something of a US version of Kalingrad, being a heavily militarized and being seen as one of the most strategically vital locations for the US, being its only Pacific outlet. How likely it is for the United States to keep Washington as a federally administered territory under martial law (as opposed to Washington being a self ruling state)?
I am writing a timeline for a nation sim in which the Confederacy manages to win the Civil War. In this timeline the US ends up firing the first shot of the war (not exactly sure how at this point, open to suggestions), provoking an even more stronger backlash from the border states. The Maryland draft riots end up being more violent and deadly than in our timeline, with the rail lines through Baltimore being burned down to disrupt troop movements into DC. Delaware attempts to declare neutrality in the war, but it is seen as being vulnerable to secessionist influences and ends up under a strong US military occupation like Maryland did in real life.
You can see a map of the world in 1950 (when the game starts) here. The North American nations include Canada (which includes the Alaska Purchase), the Confederacy (which keeps West Virginia and includes Maryland and other border states allowed to join the CSA after the end of war by referendum), Texas (an early 1900s breakaway from the CSA) and Pacifica (a breakaway from the US during the Civil War era). As another important note for the timeline, North America does not suffer any war after the end of the American Civil War. The Great War still happens along similar lines to real life except for a Central Powers victory and the nonintervention of the US and its breakaways.
One of the issues for the 1860s part of the timeline is how political parties in North America develop after the war, seeing as the areas of the divided US tended to be heavily one party? The CSA is never going to vote Republican, and United States is going to view the Democrats as either traitors the party of peace, depending on when the US ends its war with the CSA. While one party rule is basically guaranteed for a few years after the war, it seems unlikely that it will continue like that indefinitely. What would be the new source of political divisions in the Confederacy, Pacifica, and the United States through to 1950.
In a somewhat related question (being a political issue), our timeline's Washington state is going to be a strategically vital but obviously very vulnerable area, being sandwiched between Pacifica and the British. I see it as something of a US version of Kalingrad, being a heavily militarized and being seen as one of the most strategically vital locations for the US, being its only Pacific outlet. How likely it is for the United States to keep Washington as a federally administered territory under martial law (as opposed to Washington being a self ruling state)?
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