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IOTL, post Civil War, this was presented as a serious proposal by Benjamin Butler:

I advised and so urged that the States in rebellion should be divided into territories held under military control for a sufficient length of time to teach them that the lost cause and the lost Confederation was utterly obliterated and to be forgotten. I advised that those territories should be given specific names. For instance, Virginia should be the territory of Potomac; North Carolina, the territory of Cape Fear; South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, the territory of Jackson; Louisiana, the territory of Jefferson; Texas, the territory of Houston, and Arkansas, the territory of Lincoln. I believed that the lines of those territories should be so drawn as to cut up the boundaries of the original-States so that there should be nothing of State pride left. By their proceedings the people of these States had forfeited all honorable mention, and when they should be fit to come back into the Union,--which they would have been at an early day,--they should come in with the boundaries and names given, and that would have blotted out forever all brotherhood of Confederation against the United States.

So then, what if Abraham Lincoln had elected to implement Benjamin Butler's proposal, and the states of the defeated Confederate States had been relegated to territories, renamed, divided and merged in the manner proposed by Butler? How much of an impact do you think this would have had- could it have succeeded in eliminated Southern State pride, and pride in the CSA, as Butler believed it would? Or would it have been more likely IYO to have led to a backlash of ramped-up anti-US sentiment, hostility, revanchism and racism from the peoples of the former confederacy?

*Also, on another note, would anyone be interested in drawing up a map of Butler's proposed division of the Southern States for me?
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