Photos from Featherston's Confederacy/ TL-191

I'm starting to get a bit annoyed at constantly using this type of North America Map Template, but it serves its purpose.

Anyway, ever since I made that "Third Southern Victory" map, I thought about making other "alternate-within-alternate" maps that depict the Confederacy winning the Second Great War, regardless of plausibility and without specifying what the primary alternate point of divergence was.

The Man in the Heart of Dixie
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Influenced by CapitalistHippie's post, I made a map of how North America could look like if it won SGW. Here are some details:
  • Setting is during the 1960's.
  • The Confederacy under the CFP (Confederate Freedom Party) became expansionistic and annexed Missouri, West Virginia, half of New Mexico (it is called Arizona and was made to have a close connection to Deseret, which was given independence after the SGW), Sequoyah, the Bahamas, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico.
  • Belize requested to be annexed to the Confederacy to avoid being conquered by similar expansionistic Empire of Mexico. Mexican California was forcefully sold to the Confederacy.
  • Empire of Mexico was allowed to annex nearly all of Central America. The Nicaraguan (Mexican) Canal was eventually built, although the CSA has a renewable lease in perpetuity. Tensions between Mexico and the CSA are high when it is revealed that illegal immigrants from Mexico are also rounded up to concentration camps for the Population Reduction.
  • Black Confederates have been extinct since the end of the 1940's. The President(s) after Featherston adopted an explicit Scientific Racist policy against the remaining Non-Whites in the Confederacy. Native Sequoyahns, Sonoran and Chihuahuan Confederates, Bahamians, Haitians, Dominicans, Jamaicans, and Puerto Ricans experience their own version of the Population Reduction.
  • Despite being a White Supremacist, Featherston disagreed with the idea of killing off the Brawners (an umbrella-term slur used against those with brown skin in the Confederacy) because he did not view them to be traitors to the CSA. He was ignored and silenced by the younger generation of CFP members who were zealous and more charismatic than him. His old age was a reason for slowly loosing control of the Party.
  • The State of Free Canada was established after the end of the war, with its capital moved to Toronto. New Brunswick, P.E.I., Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland were also annexed into the new nation, despite having some sympathy toward the U.S..
  • The Republic of Quebec was one of the first nations to recognize Free Canada after it realized that it was on the losing side of the war. Quebec was allowed to keep its independence.
  • Russian America still exists, but parts of it, including parts of the Russian Far East were conquered by the Empire of Japan.
  • In South America, Colombia and Venezuela begin talks to form Gran Colombia again and, eventually, create some kind of continental nation to counteract against a rising CSA.
  • Greenland and Iceland exist.
  • It is implied that Britain, France, and Russia won the war.
  • Japan still made their betrayal in this timeline. They control Hawaii and nearly every island in the Pacific.
  • The USA has been humiliated and defeated for the third time against the CSA and her allies since 1882. The Socialists lose power in government but still have some influence in politics. Despite being a large country with many resources, the USA's power is emasculated and no longer has any allies in North America, but is instead surrounded by countries who are enemies and one of which is a nuclear power. However, they're willing to give it another shot in finding another ally. If not in British-French/Russian dominated Europe, then perhaps in Asia where Japan stands alone?
Dixieland
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Another alternate take on the Confederacy winning SGW, title influenced by "Fatherland", by Robert Harris.
  • The Confederacy is not expansionistic, with the exception of conquering Haiti after all Blacks were killed. No Population Reduction to the remaining Non-White population occurs... for now.
  • Featherston, surprisingly, kept his promise on getting all the lands that were taken from the CSA and has more control of the nation, instead of allowing to be governed by a younger generation of CFP members. However, he is getting too old to rule and must decide who can he trust to rule the Confederacy.
  • Belize, the Bahamas, Bermuda, and Jamaica were incorporated into the British Empire.
  • Canada as an independent nation exists and allows Quebec to continue being a sovereign nation.
  • The Mormon rebellion failed, especially without the support of the CSA. Utah remains a U.S. state; implied that the Mormon population was "taken care of", but not killed.
  • Empire of Mexico is also not expansionistic.
  • The nations of Central America still exist and continue to be influenced by either Mexico or the CSA.
  • Japan never betrays their alliance with Russia, Britain, and France.
  • Implied that Britain was the only European nation in their alliance to not be super-bombed. A ceasefire occurred between Britain and Germany. Europe is dominated by a British-German rivalry. (Kind of weird: the Central Powers won in Europe, but lost in North America)
  • North America is dominated by a U.S.-CSA+allies rivalry. It has become worse when both nations became nuclear powers...
  • Greenland and Iceland exist.
  • South America is South America.
  • Setting is shortly after the war or it's also during the 1960's.
 
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The "Other" Freedomites
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Generally considered a footnote in Canadian-American history, a religious group emerged in Canada that called themselves the Svobodniki, "free people" in Russian. A breakaway group from the Dukhobors, the group was known for their naked protests against the Canadian government for refusing to send their children to government-run schools.

After the U.S. conquered Canada, the Freedomites faced severe persecution from the military and engaged in removing many children from their Freedomite parents between 1920-1960.

Today, the United States government has officially apologized for engaging in persecutional activities against the NeoDukhobors (formerly named Freedomites due to the negative connotation) and a minor population of the religious group still exists within the northern region of the United States, but most were able to find a new home in Alaska, where the new government after SGW allowed them to practice their way of life without government intervention.

Sources (NSFW):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedomites
http://www.doukhobor.org/Soukeroff.html
https://www.thrillist.com/culture/t...eard-of-obscure-religious-sects-and-societies
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jessicamsh...mber_of_the_doukhobor_religious_sect_watches/
 
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Original cover of A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of the popular "Barsoom romances" series. A favorite of Union dictator William Dudley Pelley (and widely believed to have inadvertently inspired Coming Race Theory), the series depicts Mars as a slowly-dying world, where the hardy and noble race of Black Martians and a faction of the ivory-skinned White Martians called the Menthars were forced to interbreed by worsening planetary conditions, creating a new, hardy race of Red Martians that soon took over the planet, despite efforts by the evil, decadent, and corrupt White Martian faction, the Therns, to deny the Reds their rightful power.

First Civil War veteran John Carter, a noble Appalachian farmer from OTL West Virginia who gladly joined the Union cause against the foul treason of Jefferson Davis and lost his family to Confederate desperadoes in the war, is searching for a fabled city of gold in the depths of the Rocky Mountains when he encounters a mysterious cave; falling asleep, Carter awakens on the mysterious world of Barsoom, a desert planet with light gravity, which makes Carter a veritable superman. Encountering the bizarre Green Martians, a species of insectoid multi-armed aliens, Carter soon earns their respect through his honorable conduct, fighting prowess, and respect for their "racial traditions". After some time with the Greens and their leader, Tars Tarkas, Carter witnesses a battle between Red Martian airships, and saves a Red soldier, revealed to be the beautiful Princess Dejah Thoris, from falling to her death. Drawn by Thoris's plea for aid into a messy and pointless honor-war between the Martian cities of Helium and Zodanga, Carter faces off against Zodangan leader Sab Than, the "flower of Zodangan chivalry" and a peerless warrior, as well as the secret manipulations of the cannibal Therns, who seek to weaken and destroy both cities so they can enslave the inhabitants for menial labor and food. Discovering the Therns' plan after being captured by the Therns' leader, Holy Hekkador Matai Shang, Carter escapes with the aid of Tars Tarkas and his loyal calot (a Martian dog-analogue), Woola.

But Dejah Thoris is about to wed Sab Than as part of a desperate plan to end the war peacefully; something that the Therns will not allow, attempting to kill both bride and groom at their wedding. Carter arrives, however, with a Green Martian army, and unveils Matai Shang, causing the Thern leader and his minions to flee in terror. Finally, to end the war, Carter demands an honor duel with Sab Than, and after a tense battle, defeats the Zodangan leader, who surrenders and agrees that the honor of Helium and Zodanga has been satisfied, considering the circumstances. Carter and Thoris marry, and Carter realizes that Mars--or Barsoom, as its inhabitants call it--is now his home, not Earth. Unfortunately, Matai Shang returns in disguise, and tricks Carter into letting Shang send him back to the strange cave on Earth. Despondent, Carter leaves the Rockies for a new, more powerful United States, though his heart remains on Mars, setting up a sequel...

Widely considered a classic, A Princess of Mars was wildly popular during the early Pelley era, in part due to the dictator's well-known love for the book. Pelley commissioned several propaganda movies based on Burroughs's works, all of which (as one might expect) pushed Coming Race-supremacist themes rather extensively. A reboot series by the venerable SLK Entertainment conglomerate is entering production on the fifth film.

Burroughs's series would be continued even after his death, with new titles such as The Coming Race of Mars!, Carter at the World's End, Tarzan vs. John Carter!, and several somewhat condensed comic-book/graphic-novel versions of the series being published by Burroughs's principal publisher, Amazing Fantasy Comics And Stories (later SLK Entertainment following a post-Pelley rebranding), with post-Burroughs original novels ghostwritten by other authors. Though the series has waned in popularity since the Pelley days, it still has a following among those sympathetic to Coming Race Theory, as well as science-fiction fans in general, who consider it the first really successful American sci-fi franchise.
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Cover of Amazing Stories, December 1945. Published by Amazing Fantasy Comics And Stories/SLK Entertainment, this magazine was the exclusive source for Edgar Rice Burroughs's wildly popular Tarzan adventure novels in the late 1930s through early 1940s, gaining exclusive rights to the character after Burroughs's death. Tarzan stories would traditionally be accompanied by pictures drawn by Amazing artistic mainstay Jacob Kurtzburg, a legendarily creative and prolific artist, though the cover art was usually done by a different house artist each month--explaining this particular cover's inaccurate depiction of Tarzan as a white man.

The Tarzan series follows John Clayton, son of a runaway slave and a Quaker minister, who loses his parents as a baby when their ship is sunk and they wash up in an unexplored bit of African coastline (later revealed in controversial post-Burroughs material to be a sort of alternate dimension laying "on top" of a real part of Africa, a revelation that many fans felt spoiled the pulp aesthetic), only to be killed by a leopard. Raised by apes, Tarzan's mother's heritage gives him great physical condition, a keen mind, and a strong sense of morality and justice, while his father's blood gives him a strong creative drive, a boundless curiosity, and...well, a strong sense of morality and justice, no sense not doubling down on that one. Becoming the "king" of the jungle thanks to his combination of brains, brawn, and noble outlook, Tarzan's life is shaken when he meets a group of explorers including the lovely Jane Porter, daughter of an American explorer. Smitten, Tarzan abandons his normal routine to follow the strangers through the jungle, saving Jane from a leopard when she's separated from the group, and helps the ape leader Kerchak defend the ape tribe from villainous German hunter von Vilinus (later revealed to be a Frenchman in disguise with an evil plot to get Jane killed as part of a complex plot to break the US-German alliance). However, Tarzan is wounded and Kerchak killed fighting von Vilinus, and Jane nurses the ape-man back to health. The castaways are found by an American ship, and take Tarzan with them back to civilization, where he has trouble fitting in, and after Jane (herself confused by her feelings) rashly accepts a marriage proposal, the depressed ape-man returns to the jungle, where once more he takes his rightful place as King of the Jungle.

Later Tarzan novels would introduce fan-favorite characters like the Waziri, a noble race of proud tribal Africans who bravely struggle against villainous Franco-Belgian encroachment (Definitely no careful avoidance of criticizing the US's allies in Berlin here, not at all, no siree!); La, deuteragonist and beautiful ebon-skinned Queen of the lost Atlantean city of Opar, who wants Tarzan's genetically superior seed so she can have his babies and reverse the slow decline of her people (male Oparians are bestial ape-like savages, while the women are universally ethereally beautiful "ideals of Negro womanhood"); Sir Humphrey Featherstonehaugh, Baronet of Nottinghamshire Fork, an evil Briton who wants to enslave the Waziri and exploit them for money and power; and Burroughs's other main protagonist, John Carter, temporarily and due to a misunderstanding Tarzan's enemy before they settle their differences and become friends. Like the Barsoom series, Tarzan's adventures would continue after Burroughs's death, as Amazing owners Stanley Lieber, Jacob Kurtzburg, and Hymie Simon decided to embrace Lieber's plan to keep the money mill spinning by hiring new authors to continue the company's breakout franchises.
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It should be pretty clear here that Pelley's crazy ideas didn't come out of a vacuum; there was already a Yankee propaganda effort gone mainstream that had most of the population believing that black people are inherently noble and strong, and Northern whites inherently creative and curious (Southern whites of course being decadent, corrupt, and inherently evil according to this reasoning). Pelley is crazy, but he is but the culmination of a larger social trend that was pretty ordinary in terms of early-20th-century weird racism until Pelley actually showed up and it took a hard right turn into Crazy Town.
 
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Photograph of a young Black Confederate Slave, ca. 1880's

During the Confederacy's early existence, extensive records about their slaves and their manumitted status were made and kept as historical curiosities in museums and archive rooms. The above photograph was found in Richmond's Confederate Library of Congress shortly after the CSA was dissolved. It was discovered that the photograph was that of a Confederate slave who was from the plantation of James Burroughs in southwest Virginia, near Hale's Ford in Franklin County, Virginia. The name of the slave was Booker and was purchased by a Confederate government official who worked in Richmond. Booker was present in Richmond when the Second Mexican War occurred and tried to escape to the United States but was caught and executed.

Sources:
https://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/washington/ill3.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington#Early_life
 
(@Alterwright, @Allochronian, @Joshua Ben Ari .)

Behold! This little unique bit of history that would be very fun to play with.


There would probably be a similar variation of military uniforms for the CSA army, especially during the Second Mexican War, although it would be even more rare since the uniforms would be more standardized by that time.

I can see Sequoyahn soldiers having the most unique and diverse military uniforms of the CSA.


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American Second Great War propaganda poster depicting Jake Featherston.

Almost perfect!

Just have an actual Featherston portrayed by an brunet Eric Stoltz look-alike, change the uniform and color of the barrels to a butternut color, give the C.S. soldiers OTL WWII American uniforms, change the x to an actual red St. Andrew's cross, and you'll have a very convincing anti-Confederate propaganda poster.

I like the little CF flag you edited. :)
 
(@Alterwright, @Allochronian, @Joshua Ben Ari .)

Behold! This little unique bit of history that would be very fun to play with.

I actually found a photo of one of them.
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There would probably be a similar variation of military uniforms for the CSA army, especially during the Second Mexican War, although it would be even more rare since the uniforms would be more standardized by that time.

I can see Sequoyahn soldiers having the most unique and diverse military uniforms of the CSA.
I could actually see them preserving the uniform outside of active combat for a ceremonial role. Up until the Featherstone period and his reforms... especially considering their gentleman club elements.
 
What would be a good emblem to represent the Indian Territories?

I think that an emblem for the Indian Territory is going to be something that is originally made in TL-191.

I found battle flags and emblems belonging to different tribes, but none that was considered a universal symbol for all of the indigenous groups in the CSA; not even for the Indian Territory when it was part of the USA.

Examples that I found:

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Choctaw Battle Flag

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Cherokee Battle Flag

Website that gives you all of the Seals of the Five Civilized Tribes: https://fivecivilizedtribes.cherokee.org/Five-Tribes
 
I think that an emblem for the Indian Territory is going to be something that is originally made in TL-191.

I found battle flags and emblems belonging to different tribes, but none that was considered a universal symbol for all of the indigenous groups in the CSA; not even for the Indian Territory when it was part of the USA.

Examples that I found:

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Choctaw Battle Flag

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Cherokee Battle Flag

Website that gives you all of the Seals of the Five Civilized Tribes: https://fivecivilizedtribes.cherokee.org/Five-Tribes
What if we created one? Maybe using a Tee Pee and or an eagle feather? Not something that would fly today but for the TL-191 CSA...
 
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Painting of Emperor Maximilian on horseback
Wanting to fit in with the people of Mexico, Maximilian adopted many customs of Mexican culture. One example was him wearing a sombrero and riding on a horseback, instead of in a carriage.


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Emperor Maximilian talking to a group of Kickapoo, ca. 1865

Despite drawing the ire of the Conservatives who supported him from the beginning of his reign, Maximilian was sympathetic to the indigenous population of Mexico and of the CSA and USA. He was able to make some improvements to the quality of life of the indigenous peasants, but most still suffered from severe poverty and lack of political power. Despite the eventual Mexican Civil War that occurred between ca. 1920-1930, some Republican forces would admit that Maximilian's concerns and positive actions for the lower class of Mexican society were a redeeming quality that should be replicated in a constitutional republic.

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Photograph of Empress Carlota on her death bed in Chapultepec Castle, ca. 1930's
Carlota outlived her husband by many decades. She was several years away from being nearly a century old before she passed away. As a witness to so many events in the 19th and 20th Century, the Empress was concerned about the future of the empire. However, by the time she reached her last year, she had dementia and would often talk out loud as if her husband was present with her. Her death caused a lot of grief toward the Mexican people, who remembered her compassion for the common people.
 
(This guy...)

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Edmund Ruffin, celebrated secessionist and one of the chief proponents for Southern nationalism, Emund Ruffin would become a Confederate Folk Hero for the claim of firing the first shot of the Battle of Fort Sumter, as well as the first to enter the fort after it had surrender. (The former a myth, but still widely believe by many in the public and not uncommon to find it in Confederate history books.)

Ruffin would tour the South, speaking of his 'military action' in the War of Secession, and continued to champion his advocate of states’ rights and slavery, as well as hostility towards the North and the 'Yankees'. (His hate of abolitionism being so strong, he made a special request of the Virginia Military Institute to allow him to join the ranks of cadets for one day to view the hanging of John Brown.)

Ruffin died following the end of slavery within the CSA and the Second Mexican War, his last daily entry speaking of the 'ruin of the Confederacy and what we have fought twice again for.'

Edmund Ruffin would be noted as a 'personal hero' to Jake Featherston, notable giving speeches in front of statues to the man.

Overshadow is known is his pioneering work in methods to preserve and improve soil productivity, called the 'father of soil science' in the United/Confederate States.
 
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Union resistance fighter in Ohio during the Confederate invasion, wielding the Ingram model 41. Following the outbreak of Operation Blackbeard the United States found itself in need of an effective submachine guns. With the Thompson proving itself to costly and complicated to mass produce on a large scale to counter Confederate forces. Developed by young Gordon B. Ingram as a more cost effective successor to the Thompson Submachine Gun.
 
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