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Okay, so is there any way that we could get a scenario where after the Civil War, the United States never really heals? The South remains simmering and hateful of the North in ways that did not occur OTL, with periodic uprisings and maybe, somewhere down the line, a 2nd Civil War erupts?

I recall reading a short AH story awhile back (not on here, it was in some collection of short stories), where Abraham Lincoln, on a review of one of the forts that defended Washington, D.C., is killed by a confederate sharp shooter fairly early in the War, and his VP at the time, Hannibal Hamlin (who was allied with Northern radical Republicans), becomes POTUS. The story itself was set in the midst of WWII, and a Federal agent is in New Orleans searching after the possibility of the Nazis smuggling weapons to southern partisans. In that TL, Radical Reconstruction was adopted, and by the 1940s, 80 years after the war, southerners were still bitter and had not recovered from the Civil War, and the atmosphere portrayed by the writer of the story was one of a country under occupation.

So, how could you reasonably get to such a situation? Having Hamlin as POTUS would probably be a decent start.
Also, what if the South's capital remained farther south? So that as Union armies pressed further south, the Confederate government flees the country and sets up a Government-in-Exile in the Caribbean? Another possible idea would be if the Confederate Army makes a series of blunders and surrenders early, and so this idea persists that it was poor military leadership that chickened out and surrendered, and that the North didn't truly defeat the South.

Somethings that might occur under a radical reconstruction:
- loss of the vote for slave holders, and for those that were part of the confederate government or armed forces. (also..loss of citizenship?)
- confiscation of property for those listed above.
- state boundaries being redrawn (either dividing states up, or possibly combining them-if states were combined, they wouldn't have as much representation in congress).
- longer length of military occupation, with harsher rules to end said occupation....maybe lasting as late as the 1880s? This could be longer if any uprisings were to occur. I figure the 1880s or 1890s might be the first chance that would happen. If not at that time, then probably around WWI...Imperial Germany could try to get the Confederates to rebel again, to prevent the USA from getting involved directly in Europe.

Could also have things like shadow confederate governments existing in some states, still claiming loyalty to the confederate government-in-exile.

Any thoughts? This is just a thought exercise for now. Would be cool to build up into a proper TL at some point if I got a clear enough idea of how to proceed.
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