The Confederacy

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Octosteel

Holy crap! Okay, so I still have some questions. You said Henry Wilson was "chosen" to be President 1871. What do you mean by that? Was there not elections? And why didn't the Radical controlled Congress just impeach him instead of Sherman taking over? Also, why was Stanford opposed to the Pacific States and why didn't he just go back there and run for President?
 

Octosteel

ADS94 said:
Elections were suspended across the entire country, for fear that that the Radicals would be kicked out of office. Starting with the 1868 elections, which would normally include a Presidential, they were suspended, with promises in 1870 of holding them again. This did not come to fruition, and Colfax had plans to resign from the Presidency, so Wilson was chosen to become Vice-President, where he then inherited the Presidency. Sherman's actions were done to ensure the Seaboard radicals took control over the entire country (even though the major bloc of support for the radicals came from Indiana/Kentucky/Missouri/Ohio). Only through the overthrow of the "moderate radicals," could the Radicals take over completely. Simply impeaching Wilson would result in there still being a large Midwestern bloc that would be opposed to the NY/NJ/PA crowd.

Stanford's opposition to the Pacific States will be explored in the chapter after the one forthcoming. Let's just say life in Richmond is hard to give up.
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Alright, that all makes sense. I have no idea about the plausibility of all of it, but I really enjoyed reading it. The idea of a Radical Republican dictatorship essentially is so interesting to me. I don't think I've ever seen it before. Are you going to make a map of the new political borders of America?
 
kodak

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Why does New England have the Adirondaks? That makes very little sense from a logistical standpoint; most roads and railroads leading out of the mountains pass into southern or western New York, and in a war they would be tough to supply and easy to cut off from the rest of the country. Either New England is on very good terms with Columbia, or somehow neither country is able to take more territory from the other. (IIRC New York alone had a larger population than New England by this time)

Also, the fact that the CSA still controls both sides of the Chesapeake would be a very stupid move on the part of Columbia.
 

Johannes Parisiensis

Good and well-written ad -sourced TL:

I have three questions:
  1. OTL, Seward buying Alaska was derided, in a victorious, prosperous USA, as a folly; has Alaska fallen to the United Kingdom or Russia managed to keep this land?
  2. OTL, London called Canada a "dominion" instead of a "kingdom" so as to avoid to antagonize the United States; given the US are conflicting, how this influed on the terming?
  3. Apart from the greater centralization in the Republic of Columbia, what are the differences with the previous Constitution?

I don't think Deseret had any future as an independent state, maybe unless allying with Britain.
 

Johannes Parisiensis

ADS94 said:
States have been abolished in Columbia, replaced with administrative districts appointed by the federal government. Voting for the President is by popular vote, and the legislature is voted on according to administrative divisions, instead of states. Counties have been abolished and replaced by administrative councils, all managed by Washington. Full equality of the law for all men has been enshrined in the Constitution, and is enforced. There is no Supreme Court.
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Has the Senate been abolished? And, although Dred Scott remains as a bad precedent, how the Federal courts jurisprudence is harmonised between circuits?

And has a Confederate Supreme Court been established? This post from me comments a document describing emasculated OTL Confederate courts, along with issues about conscription and taxation laws, and a MP citing eventual problems about differents courts interpretating treaties.
 
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Alex1guy

This is bloody interesting stuff, a balkanized North America with the Confederacy being the biggest kid on the block, its different.
 

Lost Freeway

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This won't become another one of those TLs where the CSA magically abolishes slavery and abandons racism, will it?
 

Lost Freeway

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ADS94 said:
The Confederacy will abolish slavery, and there will be some progress towards improving race relations. It is absolutely nowhere near 2015 United States levels. This is not to say all the Confederate politicians wake up one day and say "Gee, ya know, this whole slavery thing is pretty horrible, let's end it!" This is far, far from the truth. The Confederacy will face it's ultimate test as it looks upon the sins of it's nationhood, and it certainly will not be a painless transition. To put it plainly, the reality of the Confederacy's intentions is not lost on me, and I do not have any interest in glossing over the true nature behind the rebel state, instead exposing it for what it could have been. How, exactly, all this happens, well... you'll just have to keep reading. :D
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Ah, I see. Of course, given how Northern blacks supported the authoritarian Radical Republicans, I don't see race relations being too sunny in the former Union either.:(

I have to admit, some of it still sounds like a Lost Causer's wet dream. Not only does those "damned Yankees" fail to hold the South, they end up destroying the Union.
 

Alex1guy

Biggest by land area, yes. The Confederate States, however, is still an agrarian nation that is focused on the exploitation of slave labour for its entire economic base. While it will certainly grow into this role, it's not going to be the major power player in 1880. You will see the progression of the Confederacy from it's current point as it wades through this new and dynamic political landscape.
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I imagine Columbia and the Pacific States are going to compete for position too. I know this TL aims to focus on the Confederacy, but I'm keen to see how the world reacts to the US's Balkanization. Any idea who is going to end up the world's big powers, or is that wait and see? :D
 
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