What issues would the 1891 Confederate States Presidential election be about?

Here is the background of what's happened before then:
The Confederacy have just fought a war with Mexico and gained the states of Sonora and Chihuahua and the Baja Territory in 1886. 3 years later they also fought off a rebellion of the Deep South States over the abolition of slavery all this happened under the administration of James Longstreet
The Democrats have nominated Simon Bolivia Buckner of Kentucky
The Confederalists have nominated the current Confederate States Vice President Fitzhugh Lee of Virginia
 
I have no idea what a lot of these are. As a citizen of Georgia, I can tell you that I can more likely see Longstreet ending up in charge of Georgia and counterseceding from the CSA. The CSA would most likely not even really get to the point where this would be possible, since IMO by 1891 the CSA will have split between warring banana republics. And I have no idea what a confederalist is. My advice is to write a Civil War & CSA TL, especially since this is like the third thread you've started on this recently.
 
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Personally I'd be a lot less contradictory with a TL. Write it. You'll have to decide what level of plausibility to include and can always ask for plausibility checks within the same thread before you post a portion of the TL. I'm sure people would make suggestions on how to make it plausible if it doesn't seem so. I think that would go better than multiple scattered questions and some of us constantly telling you that it is impossible without knowing how it is all connected.
 
I think most would agree that the 1880s is much too early for the CSA to end slavery. I think @Anaxagoras did the best job with this in the epilogue to House of the Proud - the Confederacy has to draft a new constitution in 1901 (as the 1861 constitution explicity made ending slavery impossible), with slavery eventually ending in 1905.
 
I think most would agree that the 1880s is much too early for the CSA to end slavery. I think @Anaxagoras did the best job with this in the epilogue to House of the Proud - the Confederacy has to draft a new constitution in 1901 (as the 1861 constitution explicity made ending slavery impossible), with slavery eventually ending in 1905.

This question is not related too much to the OP as a more general question. Why would the south want to end slavery?
 
This question is not related too much to the OP as a more general question. Why would the south want to end slavery?
Fair enough, but I honestly didn't know how to answer how an election in the Confederacy would go almost 30 years after the POD.
 
The main issue would be whether President [name] being elected (he'll probably win, since last time he won with 99% of the vote and in some states even 101-102% of the vote with a commanding lead of people over 125 years old) to serve his 5th term as president was the greatest thing ever or merely awesome. There's also a few other guys running, but all of them are under defacto house arrest and anyone who votes for them or their party always seems to have armed thugs show up at their house to kneecap them.
 
This question is not related too much to the OP as a more general question. Why would the south want to end slavery?

If the use of slavery is starting to have a very negative effect on Southern exports (either due to private companies and citizens abroad refusing to buy Confederate goods, or even an embargo by the Great Powers) then the South might, after a great deal of acrimony, enact a gradual emancipation plan whose terms leave blacks technically free legal residents of the CSA. By 1891 does seem a little early for that though. That said, an expansionist war by the Confederacy (such as the one the OP suggests took control of Chihuaha, Sonora, and Baja) that extends slavery would be exactly the sort of thing that could make the Great Powers move from disapproving tolerance to formal action against slavery in the Confederacy.
 

Vuu

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We can obviously see that in this one, CSA STRONK

The main issues are gonna be: what to do with the increasing number of free blacks as slavery becomes less and less profitable, and how autonomous are the states (being a confederation and all)
 

Marc

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