What if the Confederacy succeeded in taking Cuba

The CSA now has a massive sore in it's side that will be hemorrhaging money and men for it's entire existence. The individual states will bicker and fight over who gets which part of it (because fun fact the CSA really couldn't handle another state joining it after it's creation, especially after it's shambling existence has gone on for long enough to have the CSA constitution fall apart), and eventually there's a CSA Civil War.

If the CSA staged an invasion during the ACW, the Confederate navy sleeps with the fishes by the time it gets halfway there, and the USA and Spain combine forces to knock the CSA back into the US.
 
Considering that the CSA did not have a single bluewater warship (only a few converted merchant raiders) and the Spanish navy had 2 bluewater ironclads by 1863, along with 3 screw frigates, 3 paddlewheel frigates, 8 screw brigs and 18 screw schooners. There's also 2 ship of the line, 4 frigates, 4 corvettes, 9 brigs and 26 smaller sail vessels. The Spanish navy is 4th in the world 1861.

The non-existant CSA bluewater navy needs to punch through both the USA blockade and then the Spanish navy, and keep both off their supply lines as they transport troops and all their supplies to Cuba.

To be honest, it is about as likely as a fly not enjoying horseshit.
 
The problem with the Golden circle plot is that by necessity slave owners are megalomaniacs. The Cuban slave owners would seek to maximalist their profit, and the best way to do that would be to minimize the control of Dixie tax men.
 
Also almost everyone in Cuba was a Catholic and I believe there was a massive amount of prejudice against them in America if I remember how the Irish are treated like garbage and they spoke English the Cubans will speak Spanish.
 
Also almost everyone in Cuba was a Catholic and I believe there was a massive amount of prejudice against them in America if I remember how the Irish are treated like garbage and they spoke English the Cubans will speak Spanish.

Anti-Catholic sentiment was a far greater issue to the "Railroads, Rum, and Romanism" Republicans and Northerners in general, though. The Irish faced far less prejudice in the south, where the culture was different and the level of competition they placed on a (fairly small) urban working class for work was lesser. The Spainish is a little more of a concern, but the upper class is clearly gentry that mesh well with Antibellium Dixie "High Culture" and would likely start learning English as a matter of course.
 
Considering it would take an ASB with sympathy for the CSA for it to pull this off , I guess they could run it fine until the ASB got bored and no longer manipulated things in its favor.
 
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