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I know, I know, "what if the Confederacy won the war?" is the most over-done alternate history in the entire history of alternate history, after "what if the Nazis won WWII?" My excuse for making this is the fact that most of those alternate histories paint a North-and-South-Korea like competition between equal opposites, a scenario which just doesn't hold much water.

Let's face it, the Confederacy had much more in common with the violent and unstable nations of Latin America than with the U.S. or Canada. It had a small, rural population, a society deeply divided along racial lines, an underdeveloped manufacturing sector, a huge concentration of wealth in a land owning elite class, a small and impotent government, an unstable cash crop export economy, and so many other systemic problems that it probably would have have been in chaos within a few decades.

Here the C.S.A. has been reduced to the Deep South states and the Upper South states have either voted to abolish slavery and return to the Union or formed their own republics over the course of the 1860s and 70s. Some time later, a Mexo-American alliance takes further territory from the C.S.A., encouraging secessionist movements in Texas and Louisiana in order to create manageable client states.

I considered including the ideas of an independent Mormon republic, independent Black republic, or American annexation of Canada, but without further departure from OTL those didn't seem very likely, though they are worth exploring in other scenarios.

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I know, I know, "what if the Confederacy won the war?" is the most over-done alternate history in the entire history of alternate history, after "what if the Nazis won WWII?" My excuse for making this is the fact that most of those alternate histories paint a North-and-South-Korea like competition between equal opposites, a scenario which just doesn't hold much water.

Let's face it, the Confederacy had much more in common with the violent and unstable nations of Latin America than with the U.S. or Canada. It had a small, rural population, a society deeply divided along racial lines, an underdeveloped manufacturing sector, a huge concentration of wealth in a land owning elite class, a small and impotent government, an unstable cash crop export economy, and so many other systemic problems that it probably would have have been in chaos within a few decades.

Here the C.S.A. has been reduced to the Deep South states and the Upper South states have either voted to abolish slavery and return to the Union or formed their own republics over the course of the 1860s and 70s. Some time later, a Mexo-American alliance takes further territory from the C.S.A., encouraging secessionist movements in Texas and Louisiana in order to create manageable client states.

I considered including the ideas of an independent Mormon republic, independent Black republic, or American annexation of Canada, but without further departure from OTL those didn't seem very likely, though they are worth exploring in other scenarios.