Of course a war is not inevitable. Rather than CS refugees going to Drakia after losing the ACW you could see Drakia offering substantial land grants to southerners, and free transportation and nothing would stop the southerners from bringing their slaves with them, at least early on. Only one in four southern households even owned one slave, and the number of large scale slave owners was relatively small although politically dominant. If a significant percentage of those slave owners decided to go to Drakia as described, having the brains to realize that secession was doomed then war talk peters out. It wasn't the yeoman farmers, however racist they might have been, who were clamoring for secession. OTL the option of selling land, and potentially some of the slaves and taking the cash and all/some slaves elsewhere with a large land grant simply was not viable. OTL Mexico was non-slave, and Brazil was not attractive until the south had lost. Here Drakia speaks English, is part of the British Empire which southerners find congenial, and converting slaves to serfs is a matter of paperwork unlike OTL where slavery was frankly outlawed in the Empire (in spite of a lot of slave like practices).
I expect the USA would be happy to see the major slave power folks leave, and even swallow the taking of slaves with them.
Just some thoughts.
Early Gold Rush Best Gold rush.Gold changes everything.
boy talk about taking more than you can chew...This Bravo seems to be like a real egomaniac type if he thought that was workable in the slightest.Nicolas Bravo presided over a deeply authoritarian Republic of Mexico that had successfully reunified itself a little over a decade before, not merely reacquiring the lands of the equally oppressive Kingdom of Mexico but also those of formerly New Spanish Central America. The decision to conquer Central America saw Mexico struggling with a bloody and ongoing occupation that left it even less able to settle or police its northern territories than it was OTL
Interesting, that does has got me thinking, is it Possible ITTL with the focus on culture we'll see more of an officiall attempt by the government to force new immigrant groups to conform not allow a melting pot? Do wonder though what that culture the goverment tries to push would look like...it is an uncomfortable fact that a less racist United States is also a more imperialistic United States. ITTL the prospect of absorbing such a large number of non-whites was less intolerable to Americans who were more concerned with culture than race, although the racists and sane people were still influential enough that America did not actually annex all of Mexico.
Ooof yeah Mexico ITTL got super screwed. They may as well of just added the other portions of it, put the nation out of its collective misery.All its got now ITTL is a future as a impoverished rump, with no chance to get anywhere. My guess: some guy like this idiot will take power and try to go and reconquer the parts of Mexico the US stole only to get brutally crushed and the nation annexed.In OTL the Treaty of Guadeloupe-Hidalgo striped Mexico of 55% of the its territory and some 3% of its population, leaving America with 80,000 Hispanic Mexicans to assimilate. ITTL the territory that President Sherman saw transferred from Mexico to the United States (not including the Yucatan) was closer to two-thirds of OTL Mexico with 15% of its population- not counting Central America which had been part of Mexico ITTL before the war and was also lost to the country. The United States was left with 850,000 Hispanic Mexicans to assimilate, although as there would be 25.6 million Americans living outside of TTL’s Mexican Cession when the Census of 1850 was completed that wasn’t an entirely unmanageable number.
I enjoy how southern Dreams have cracked at cold hard reality of how "yeah, most people now adays, rather dont perfer Slavery"...Also Im kinda fascinated how Texan demographics are like ITTL,with all the French conservatives, Irishman and Americans it seems like a interesting place to be.The South wanted to admit Texas, California, and Ixcanha at the ver least as slave states, helped by the fact that the Republic of Texas had asked to be a slave state and Ixcanha had indicated its willingness to be one as the price of admission. But most actual inhabitants of Texas- the Francophone Tejaneaux- were opposed to slavery, Ixcanha was at best ambivalent, and California’s government was actively hostile.
Mmm, INTERESTING. Never really considiered not having a civil war in a TL with America exsisting or for it to become a international clash . Your completely right about the south probably being abit more realistic with all the demographics around. since the Dice has said we are still having the war, I wonder how that Realism will affect Southern leadership and how they conduct the war. Also wonder how the new international war will affect the French and British, Im seeing Algeria as a prime target by the French (im sure their resentful at being shut out of Africa) and the Draka will move into stop them.You, dear reader, are assuming that there will be a civil war. After all there is always some version of an American Civil War over slavery or race relations in an AH TL- particularly in ones that deal with America. Thande’s LTTW has a version of the ACW, so does HeX’s More Perfect Union, and Napoleon’s Madness-verse, and Stirling’s vanilla Drakaverse, and Turtledove’s Atlantis, and Barnes’ Lion’s Blood, and plenty of my own works. Perhaps it is that the experience of the ACW is so central to the American identity and experience that we cannot imagine a world without it? Certainly, it makes sense at this point in our TL to have one, but I don’t know that it is quite so inevitable as all of that. The South is clearly outnumbered and outmatched and it may be a bit more realistic in its assessment of its chances.
Why Im tickled pink, glad to assist your creative energies.Hmm. I wanted the Last Crusade to be a European and Middle Eastern conflict but now one of my readers has been giving me ideas
Man, that's one thicc America you've got going there! Here's hoping they clean up their scraps, Manifest some more Destiny, and get around to annexing Cuba, Alaska, and Newfoundland.*Battle Cry of Freedom intensifies*
UnderstandableAlaska
Ok?Cuba
C O M E A N D T A K E I TNewfoundland
C O M E A N D T A K E I T
What are yah taking to see this?Everyone knows the true lost 14th colony wasn't that once-Gallic pretender to the claim, Nova Scotia, but fellow founded-by-God's-chosen-English-colonials.... Newfoundland!
Man, that's one thicc America you've got going there! Here's hoping they clean up their scraps, Manifest some more Destiny, and get around to annexing Cuba, Alaska, and Newfoundland.
Everyone knows the true lost 14th colony wasn't that once-Gallic pretender to the claim, Nova Scotia, but fellow founded-by-God's-chosen-English-colonials.... Newfoundland!
What are yah taking to see this?