I've tried searching on the site a bit, but obviously didn't do too good a job as I didn't turn anything up, but...
I've seen a couple of TLs, here and elsewhere, where post a CSA-wins Civil War, the US went on to split again. This doesn't seem particularly likely to me, as I don't really think there was any other bloc of states that had a common sense of identity like the South did while also having a serious enough axe to grind with the Federal government. I could be completely wrong in that assessment...
However, what I don't think I've ever seen is a TL where the victorious CSA later goes onto split again into two or more separate states. IMHO, this is much more likely given that the CS was very much in favour of states' rights and a comparatively small and weak central government, to the extent that certain state governors even refused to release state militia troops to fight for the Confederacy even after the war had turned against them. So, all it takes, many many years after the Civil War, is for the CS government to decide they're going to abolish slavery and you might get a Confederate civil war going. Or maybe not; would the Confederate government even try to prevent any of its constituent states from seceding, given that their whole nation was built on secession?
So, thoughts? My real question is, does anyone know of any TLs in which this sort of thing happens in a "victorious" CSA? And does anyone really disagree with my assessment above (because, while I'm interested in the ACW, I'll admit its not really my period...)
I've seen a couple of TLs, here and elsewhere, where post a CSA-wins Civil War, the US went on to split again. This doesn't seem particularly likely to me, as I don't really think there was any other bloc of states that had a common sense of identity like the South did while also having a serious enough axe to grind with the Federal government. I could be completely wrong in that assessment...
However, what I don't think I've ever seen is a TL where the victorious CSA later goes onto split again into two or more separate states. IMHO, this is much more likely given that the CS was very much in favour of states' rights and a comparatively small and weak central government, to the extent that certain state governors even refused to release state militia troops to fight for the Confederacy even after the war had turned against them. So, all it takes, many many years after the Civil War, is for the CS government to decide they're going to abolish slavery and you might get a Confederate civil war going. Or maybe not; would the Confederate government even try to prevent any of its constituent states from seceding, given that their whole nation was built on secession?
So, thoughts? My real question is, does anyone know of any TLs in which this sort of thing happens in a "victorious" CSA? And does anyone really disagree with my assessment above (because, while I'm interested in the ACW, I'll admit its not really my period...)