That's better.https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=147320 Hopefully, this will prove to be a more reasonable CSA TL.
The Rise of the South
- Thread starter Jake Vektor
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Jake Vektor
Banned
This timeline is DISCONTINUED
After much soul-searching, I have decided to stop all work on this TL. One reason is that it's just plain bad. Another reason is that I can't think of how to continue it past the current point. The most basic summary of the post-WWII situation is that the CSA finds itself facing up against a USSR-FRPA alliance. However, I can't figure out the specific events. I don't want to have decolonization go along as IOTL, mainly out of my love for the British and German empires. The downside of this is that the Communists are going to find less fertile ground for spreading their ideology, making the Cold War a lot less interesting. Without the "3rd world" to use as a battleground, much of the Cold War would be reduced to simple "watching and waiting," and you know how boring that is. Besides, I've got a DBWI that deals with the CSA. Plus, another person has made a TL about the CSA that involves the CSA abolishing slavery to help win the Civil War. Such works render my own TL totally unnecessary. So I'm quitting. Hopefully, I can use the lessons from this TL to make another TL that's not brain-breakingly bad.
After much soul-searching, I have decided to stop all work on this TL. One reason is that it's just plain bad. Another reason is that I can't think of how to continue it past the current point. The most basic summary of the post-WWII situation is that the CSA finds itself facing up against a USSR-FRPA alliance. However, I can't figure out the specific events. I don't want to have decolonization go along as IOTL, mainly out of my love for the British and German empires. The downside of this is that the Communists are going to find less fertile ground for spreading their ideology, making the Cold War a lot less interesting. Without the "3rd world" to use as a battleground, much of the Cold War would be reduced to simple "watching and waiting," and you know how boring that is. Besides, I've got a DBWI that deals with the CSA. Plus, another person has made a TL about the CSA that involves the CSA abolishing slavery to help win the Civil War. Such works render my own TL totally unnecessary. So I'm quitting. Hopefully, I can use the lessons from this TL to make another TL that's not brain-breakingly bad.
Well, you survived you're first foray into the harsh world that is the alternatehistory.com forums. And even though I'm a staunch Yank and foe to neo-Confederates every where I enjoyed your timeline. It bashed the New Deal, which the libertarian in me appreciates, and it made me laugh (perhaps unintentionally). And even though it often read like one of those Politically Incorrect Guide books it was still better than some of the CSA wins TL that crop up around here every once in a while. Overall, I hope you stick around and if I attack one of your timelines it's nothing personal I just have a genetic need to defend the North.
Benjamin
Benjamin