Oh yeah, I remember those! I'm glad you find the scenario interesting!
There will certainly be some focus on mistakes made by the CC going into the mid-20th Century, although IMO I think what people will regard as downsides is very much subjective. In my personal opinion, I consider the CCA's political structure to be too centralized for my taste and I probably wouldn't be a supporter of flat out annexing Canada ITTL, for example. With that being said, I do plan on giving some future presidents more blatant flaws.
Without the Monroe Doctrine, South America has actually become an important front of the First Great Struggle. Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil are all within the German sphere of influence and have been backed by Germany in wars of expansion whereas Venezuela has been under German military occupation since the early 1920s after a government still indebted to Germany following the German-American War begrudgingly requested the support of Berlin keeping their territory intact. As for Brazil specifically, the country's territorial expansion has largely been driven by the anarcho-syndicalist revolution in Argentina scaring the increasingly unpopular Brazilian government into occupying territory perceived as vulnerable to the anarchist revolutionary tide that has already proliferated into Chile, partially as a power play to deter local rebellions by Brazil's growing socialist movement.
I love this. Day is a very underrated figure in both OTL and in alternate history. She was a great women and had a very interesting life IOTL with her fighting for women’s suffrage despite being tortured by prison guards and fighting for her own vision of Christian socialism. Glad to see her finally used in a timeline. A very good read.
The vast majority of insurgencies were limited to the Deep South, with the KKK, a handful of local southern governments on the county and municipal level, and affiliated groups waging guerrilla conflicts and occasionally acts of terrorism against the Cooperative Commonwealth, although these were all very small and limited conflicts as opposed to anything close to a full-blown civil war. By far the largest and most organized insurgency in the region was the secession of Texas in a brief war of independence against the national government. Smaller terrorist attacks happened throughout the CC in its early history, however, these were typically very isolated, disorganized, and never held onto any territory like the insurgencies in the South.
Another great wikibox. A shame Ammon Hennacy didn’t win but story wise Long is a superior choice.
That lime green country is the Democratic Republic of Africa, an attempt at creating a pan-African state that is in reality a collection of warlords tied back to the East African Federation. During the Global War, Idi Amin, an officer of the German colonial forces in Uganda, staged an uprising in collaboration with East African nationalists that secured backing from both the Friendship of Mutual Assistance and the Japanese and quickly won the support of both local nationalist groups throughout Mittelafrika and the public of the American-Japanese coalition. Having grown up in a German colony ITTL, Amin based much of his philosophy off of Otto von Bismarck in particular, viewing his Pan-African campaign during the Global War as the African equivalent to the unification of Germany in the 1860s and 1870s and modeling the constitution of the Democratic Republic of Africa off of that of the German Empire, just without a monarchy. While Amin managed to establish a civil government in East Africa by the end of the conflict, Central Africa was placed under the temporary control of high-ranking officers and local nationalist leaders, which has turned the DRA's western holdings into de facto warlords tied back to Amin. For now, the DRA is loosely held together by the popularity of Amin and international backing from both global superpowers, but this arrangement isn't going to last given the tenuous nature of the western warlords.
