By no I think they know the effects of Radiation.
Yes, ok.
If we're talking about on a massive, monumental scale, no, I do not believe that the C.S.A. would try anything. Perhaps small, localized places in areas that weren't really affected by the Second Great War (i.e., Louisiana, Florida) but nothing on the scale of, say, the Canadian Rebellion of '41 to '43 for the U.S. of TL-191.
I don't recollect what happened to the Empire of Mexico to make it a US puppet. Did the US Socialist Party, with the blessings of the Democrats, fomrnt a revolution down there, overthrowing the Empire and replacing it with Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos? Or was Francisco Jose a complete and utter political *****?
That's a quote from NYC Mayor Nikita Khruschev: "If you try to knock down the United States or cut us in twain, we will get back up on our two feet and WE WILL BURY YOU!"
The Black Holocaust changes everything, you know another name for the South is called the Bible Belt of America, so can you think of anything more Unchristian than the mass gassing and incineration of millions of innocent civilians? I think a lot of God fearing Southern Christians are going to have a lot of trouble with the fact that they let their Southern Government get away from them, terrify them, and commit such inhuman crimes in their name. With the Confederate Cross being associated with genocide, I have doubts there will be a lot of Southern families that would want to assocate themselves with such a think, its much easier to vote in the next election, than to spill ones blood for a morally questionable cause. By the 1960s I'll bet many of them have seen the mass graves, the crematoriums and the gas chambers by now, and being the good Christians they are, they are no doubt familiar with the Golden Rule that one does onto others as one would have other do onto them. So long as the Federal Government gives them a fair shake, I think they will not be so eager to rebel.
On the other side of the balance sheet, occupying Canada is not as important to most US citizens as keeping the South from rebelling again. Canada is basically an adjunct to the British Empire, occupying Canada is basically as important to the United States as occupying Vietnam. The terrorism and the bomings and the tolls in human life and suffering involved, one has to ask what are the American people getting out of this? Is it worth continuing this trouble, or is pulling out the better option? Canada is less populated, but it still exacts a toll to occupy the place. Maybe you could send enough Americans over there to overwhelm the Canadian population, but is the short term cost worth the long term benefit? A lot of widows and orphans are going to be asking that question, and many politicians are going to be trying to justify it or use it to get elected on an antiwar platform, just as Democrats used the Iraq War. The socialists are probably going to inflate the toll of continued Canadian occupation, and the media is going to be in cahoots with them until either there is a pull out or the resistance is crushed, and it wouldn't take alot of soldiers coming home in body bags either. Take the Iraq War as an example, it really is a puny war in terms of American casualities when compared to Vietnam and Korea, so as time passes and memories of the Second Great War begin to fade, people are going to begin to ask, "what are American troops doing in Canada, shouldn't they be in the South where all the trouble makers were? After all the South attacked us, while the Canadians only want their independence." Such would be the liberal position in the USA, probably put forth by the Socialists.
HA! They'rs trending more towards fascism, if you ask me, just like the Republicans! I wish OTL was a TL where one doesn't have to choose between Red Liberal Fascist Party (socially controlling, pro-big-business) and Blue Liberal Fascist Party (socially engineering, anti-business except for the big Wall St banks) if one lives in the good ole USofA!
I could see a Canadian Autonomous Republic constituted into existence under a Republican (yes! Republican!) President Walter Mondale. Rememberm in TTL, the Repubs are the mealy-mouthed liberals between the Socialists on the left and the Democrats on the right.
HA! They'rs trending more towards fascism, if you ask me, just like the Republicans! I wish OTL was a TL where one doesn't have to choose between Red Liberal Fascist Party (socially controlling, pro-big-business) and Blue Liberal Fascist Party (socially engineering, anti-business except for the big Wall St banks) if one lives in the good ole USofA!
Sorry for the rant but I needed to get it off my chest. Carry on.
I don't know, seems to me that if we apply that to post war Germany (both East and West) they didn't seem all that nationalistic to me, and Germany has been a nation for longer that the CSA under the TL-191 timeline. Now why would you suppose that white southerners would be more nationalistic than the Germans about their respective countries. As I recall, the Germans were enthusiastic about getting involved in Pan-European organizations to cover up their war guilt, for the white southerners it would be getting involved more in the United States. Killing millions of civilians is beyond the pale even for white christian southerners. If they associate more with the Stars & Bars, they are also drawing themselves closer to the black Holocaust. How many folks have you ever seen flying German swastikas and claiming innocently that they are just German nationalists enthusiastic for their country?
