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Okay, so I'm working on an idea for a timeline which is basically built on the idea that the CSA survived, but was an agricultural shithole that fell to communist agitation in the 1920s, and I was curious about plausibility.
Here's the general gist:
Confederacy wins Gettysburg or whatever, and the British guarantee them, et cetera, no one gives a shit.
Immigration is a trickle, and blacks have the "advantage" of being extremely poor and having relatively little education; a black population advantage over white Confederates slowly appears.
King Cotton collapses in the late 1870s/early 1880s, leading to emancipation in all states except South Carolina and Mississippi (which do emancipate, but later, during the Great War because of their very high slave populations).
The large black population ends up becoming the majority of the urban poor and industrial workers (that is, the proletariat) following the growth of southern factories in the 1890s.
With the outbreak of the Great War in Europe, the CSA declares war on Germany because of her being something of a satellite state of the British.
Fearful of demographics and desperate to feed the war machine, the Confederates begin mass recruitment and conscription of the black population. These new black soldiers end up becoming a majority of the Confederate military, and many become radicalized.
After the war, these soldiers return home, find things are exactly as bad as they left.
A race riot erupts into full-scale urban warfare as black former soldiers retaliate against white lynch mobs.
Communist elements push forward a revolution on the back of this and similar events.
Collapse of the CSA, eventual success of the communists in establishing a new order in its former territories.