War Between the States: A Collaborative Timeline

Well I was thinking about it and I figured out that no one has come up with a collaborative timeline for the future of the Confederate States of America had it been victorious at the Battle of Gettysburg. Any suggestions on how to make it last well into the 20th Century and possibly even into the 21st Century. Your comments, ideas and thoughts are appreciated and if you already have timelines to start it off please feel free to post them up and they'll will be adapted and incorporated over time.
 
Well I was thinking about it and I figured out that no one has come up with a collaborative timeline for the future of the Confederate States of America had it been victorious at the Battle of Gettysburg. Any suggestions on how to make it last well into the 20th Century and possibly even into the 21st Century. Your comments, ideas and thoughts are appreciated and if you already have timelines to start it off please feel free to post them up and they'll will be adapted and incorporated over time.

I think the South could survive, perhaps up until the 1940s at the latest, but I'm afraid it's collapse would be quite bloody after, say, 1900, or so, especially if the Confederate Congress passes laws making all black people slaves or whatever.

I guess one thing you could do is have the Civil War end early: The Union has a few big-time screwups somewhere, say in Texas or Virginia, and ends up having to begin to pull out in 1864, right around the heat of the election season. The Democrats run somebody who isn't McClellan and manage to eke out a slight victory against Abe Lincoln, who gets assassinated just after Election Day by a disgruntled Copperhead, leaving Andy Johnson in place only until March 1865, before the Dem takes office.

The Confederacy narrowly wins the war but will be very dependent on foreign exports for many years to come, and will spend the next 15 years rebuilding the country, while the U.S. sulks in defeat. Trouble comes in 1880, though, when Mexico implodes in civil strife; seeing their chance, the C.S. government decides to invade Sonora, Chihuahua, and Coahuila, and sides with the newly elected government of Porfirio Diaz. The rebels are viciously put down and in 1883, the Confederate government decrees that all Mexicans who are not sufficiently 'white', are to either be deported or put into slavery. The U.S., though not quite the harbinger of interethnic harmony itself, is aghast at this move and many Americans begin to fear that the C.S. may turn their hungry eyes northward, towards the lost states of Missouri and Kentucky in particular. Tensions gradually begin to build back up for a while, and then in March 1903, a slave with a stolen gun shoots the C.S. President, Benjamin "Ben" Tillman. The assailant is brutally executed for his actions but Tillman's successor blames "Yankee propaganda" for the incident and begins to build up the C.S. Army, thinking(rather foolishly, I should add), that they'd be able to beat them "damnyankees" once and for all, and as the middle of the decade approaches, both countries are once again, on the brink of war.......
 
Well I was thinking about it and I figured out that no one has come up with a collaborative timeline for the future of the Confederate States of America had it been victorious at the Battle of Gettysburg. Any suggestions on how to make it last well into the 20th Century and possibly even into the 21st Century. Your comments, ideas and thoughts are appreciated and if you already have timelines to start it off please feel free to post them up and they'll will be adapted and incorporated over time.


1st, welcome aboard crazikat.

2nd, there are several threads concerning "what happens next" in a victorious CSA floating around here. Here are links to a few of them:
Slave Revolution in a post American Civil War CSA
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=248803

Confederate Industrialization and Imperialism
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=246728

A Confederate Navy after independence?
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=246743

Mexico in a CS Victory TL?
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=248240

North American Politics After CSA Victory
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=245281

These and several others are from the the past two months. For more, type confederate into the "search this forum" box in the upper right.

Again, welcome; looking forward to "seeing" you around.
 
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