There are those that were better than others on the whole however.The USA treated Indians very harshly as per OTL and that is comparable to what the CSA did to blacks-but still not the same. But the way the Mormons were treated in the United States isnt really comparable to the way blacks were treated in the CSA-especially in considering the comparison as to the reasons that the USA did it and the severity of the Mormons treatment by the USA. If the Mormons had remained loyal to the USA and hadn't taken up arms -several times-their treatment would have been essentially equal. Could the same be said about blacks in the CSA-no matter what they did or didnt do ? Also while a forced relocation to Hawaii was considered for the Mormons,killing them all was never on the table.
Also in the modern USA all of those groups ( which all had low numbers) were enfranchised as well-including women . Im not sure women had the franchise in the CSA- was tht ever stated one way or the other?
But this isn't the modern USA we are talking about.
We are talking about two seperate American nations that existed in the late-19th and early-20th centuries in an alternate universe.
In the pre-Freedomite CSA, there are class problems and race problems, but if you are not black you can still make a name for yourself, even if the aristocracy still holds the reigns much of the time. Had Featherston never come to power, this could have changed, gradually.
In the pre-Freedomite CSA, there didn't seem to be de-jure segregation, just de-facto towards blacks and they were treated as an underclass, even after the Socialist Rebellions, the outright killing of all blacks wasn't on the table.
It wasn't until the Freedom Party took over, and with Jake Featherston's flame fanning of populism (which ironically enough created TTL's version of the Tennessee Valley Authority and pretty much completely improved the situation for hispanics in the country) that made the push for exterminating the blacks, to this day I think this was a stupid idea by Turtledove and that he was running out of ideas for storytelling, making the CSA kill off 1/3 of it's own people? Good
GOD!
I think in TTL because the CSA gained it's independence that it provoked the Mormons to do the same a few times more. Each time the church was pounded into the dirt, it's temples and wards destroyed, rebuilt, and then destroyed again. All ending with a forced relocation, Utah pretty much becoming TTL's Canada alongside the CSA.
Texas is probably the place in the Confederacy that has whites most hostile toward Hispanics.