B-29_Bomber
Banned
ok, I'll ask in chat instead, probably more of a political question to be honest......
Huh? What the heck?
Does it involve Space Nazis?
I bet it involves Space Nazis!
My second guess is Space Wolves!
ok, I'll ask in chat instead, probably more of a political question to be honest......
I keep hearing this, can I ask why exactly this is a statement of fact?
The strategic situation. If Virginia leaves, they are tethered to the Confederacy by two railroad lines. The main ones transits through North Carolina; the other, Tennessee.
So, if Virginia leaves, and North Carolina doesn't, and it comes to war, they will find themselves forced into it. They don't have the luxury of the other border states, where they can sit out and hopefully no armies will come marching. Either way, there will be one, either to occupy the rail lines to connect Montgomery to Richmond, or one to occupy Wilmington et al to prevent it from being used.
So, a vote against secession, when Virginia has voted to leave, is a vote to stand against Virginia and the armies that seek to resupply and defend her. Which, I think, is a doable action; it will just take a lot more to rile the citizens of the state against the South to that point.
Tennessee's convention I'm imagining still goes like OTL for the end result.
However, I can imagine a rigged vote. it should be noted that in OTL the Unionists caused the South to lose much control over the Eastern rural areas of the state, restricting Southern control to the cities. Eventually both sides reached a "pretend each other doesn't exist" kind of thing, until Tennessee fell to the North in the first year. Then most of the secessionists in Tennessee sheepishly join the North.
The Tennessee legislature acted on 1 May; so did the North Carolina legislature. Tennessee was admitted to the CSA ON 16 May, North Carolina on 17 May.I thought NC and Tennessee went at the same time.