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"General McClellan's strategy of defense and attrition allowed the Confederated States under President Toombs to begin his policy of Reconcentration. The CSA consolidated their current resources, shifted their production from cash crop to food stuffs, and began training their raw recruits under the talented officers they had under their banner. During this process, the Confederated States began trading with the French via the Mexican Empire, though no official recognition or interventions were made or proposed at the time. But, unofficially, a few Dixie units were trained under Mexican Imperial officers and French advisers, creating the famed "Gray Boneys", and surplus French arms also made it across the border. Eventually, a French vessel was caught leaving a Dixie port, officially there for simple repairs, but was seen trading weapons to Confederated States officials by Union spies. The Union vessels attempting to maintain a blockade sank the vessel. The crew is then saved by locals, and a Confederacy fleet proceeded to sink that Union vessel in retaliation. France then officially intervened in the conflict..."- A Guide to the First Yankee-Dixie War, Copyright 2009, Canberra Society of History.
"...The war ended with most damage being in border states, and General Pope's and General Hooker's strategies resulted in harming Union relations in both Kentucky and Missouri, causing the split in popular-opinion that had so divided the two states to grow beyond a regional divide, with debates on the war occurring heatedly and even-sided from Springfield to Maryville, and from Bowling Green to Lexington. In the final talks of the war, codified in the Treaty of Mexico City, while the most notorious issues was the nullification of Confederacy debts to nations other than France, creating major tensions with Britain, the status of the border states was a major point of contention, best seen in the notorious Travis-Collins Affair..."
- Bufferzone, 2013, Trajan Productions
"Some of the most important parts of the Treaty are the 'Matters upon the Regions of Missouri and Kentucky', outlining the maintained independence of the two border states for a period of twenty years before they may choose to join either the USA or the CSA via referendum, with the option of continued independence for another twenty year period. Missouri, its infrastructure ravaged, would eventually join the Confederated States in 1904, it's powerful but vanishing slaver elite opting for the Dixie policy of compensation. The same story did not occur in nearby Kentucky, however. It, if anything, benefited from the war. The USA and CSA both refused to trade with one another directly after the Treaty of Mexico City, and with its infrastructure being far more intact than Missouri's, Kentucky became the commercial hub of North America. Merchants and companies wishing to market to both Yankees and Dixie moved and became "Kentuck"-brand companies that both sides were willing to buy from. Many scientists congregated as well, both because of the far more optimistic post-war attitude and for the same lack of political restriction, wishing to expand beyond the realms of military research (in the case of the Union) or agriculture and industry (in the case of the Confederacy). Slavery was small, and while not officially illegalized until 1889, there was not one registered slave in Kentucky after 1877, either from direct emancipation, "theft" by retreating Union soldiers, or escape over the border. Kentucks in coming years became hypercapitalistic in culture, and incredibly proud of their prosperity, voting to remain independent three times before officially ending the bi-decade referendum. Said culture, however, has put them in the Dixie sphere thanks to the CSA's hardline stance against communism."
- Thomas Chapman, Senior, Albright Peaks High School, AP American History presentation, 2017
"Tragedy struck Kentucky today, as two Arab men unleashed a lethal hail of bullets in Bowling Green, killing numerous unnarmed civilians and several police officers. It would seem they were from the Federation of Communist Nations in the Middle East, and the attack appears to have been ideologically motivated. President Daniels was unavailable for comment. More information to come as we investigate."
- Channel 8 News, Newport News, Virginia, Confederated States of America
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This is pretty cool. I used to live in Bowling Green for a while when I was a kid.
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Interesting stuff. Any details on the rest of the Americas and the outside world? I may do a cover for this.
Who's the dominant communist power? Was there a WWI or WWII analogue?
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I actually just added something to the description that mentions one of the communist powers, haha. Anyways, not all of this compact, these are just ideas I mocked up for the world I had in mind.
In the Americas, the Confederated States (note the 'd' rather than the 's') own the Yucatan (puppet regime that applied for statehood) all of their Arizona Territory, and the rest of OTL State of New Mexico. Mexico is still an Empire (now a Constitutional Monarchy) under the Hapsburgs, and the French, once the ones leading the show in their alliance, is now second fiddle to the CSA. The Cubans and Nicaraguans are Dixie puppets.
The USA, meanwhile, is best buds with Britain, with a fascist undertone to their democracy. The Mormonism took off in the West after the war, especially as the US abandoned westward development for a little while due to war debt and rebuilding the North from Southern raids, and Deseret broke away and took OTL Utah, Colorado, Nevada, and the rest of Arizona with them. They're a theodemocracy that practices Christian Socialism. California ended up independent too, mostly out of convience as the Mormon War made communication and coordination with Washington and later Chicago (now the Federal City of Lincoln) difficult. They at first said they were leaving the Union for pratical purposes, but angry soldiers from Oregon massacring towns resulted in California being anti-Union.
While the Caribbean is a Dixie pond, the Pacific is damn near a Yankee one. Westward expansion became a major concern after the loss of Deseret and California, and from the states of Oregon and Columbia (OTL Washington), they created massive fleets and shipyards. The Philipines, Micronesia, and Hawaii are American, and the United States of Indonesia is a "Commonwealth" (read: Dominion) alongside the US of Japan and of the US of China, states carved out by American intervention in TTL WW1, a later Boshin War, and a peasant revolt respectively, and economic imperialism has done the rest.
Other things include forever divided Germany between the South German Confederation, Prussia, and Rhineland, a federalized communist A-H called the Socialist Union of Workers' Republics, a Third French Empire started by a guy who claimed to be a Bonaparte, and a communist federalized Ottoman empire called the Federation of Communist Nations.
WW1 was the Anglo-Yankee-led Coalition against the French-Dixie-led Grand Entente. The American Theatre was slog as trenches covered the border, while in Europe it was a game of naval invasion and hit-and-run tactics. Entente victory. WW2 saw the Entente and Coalition form into the Concert of Nations (TTL UN), who fought the German-led Communist Internationale. Germany had gone commie during the interwar period (being a British ally) and aided the revolution in A-H. That war was brutal and nasty, with no ethics shown by either side. Communist-sympathizing Brazil gets jointly occupied by the US and the CS, and is still divided today. The Hohenzollerns were handed back Prussia and N. German up to the Confederation of the Rhine, a state revived by the French. A-H remained mostly unharmed due to the war being concentrated in Germany, and the communist revolution in the Ottoman Empire is what helped make the war a general stalemate.
While the Concert of Nations supposedly keeps the world at peace, tensions are rising between the old Entente and Coalition. The former is staunchly anti-communist but democratic, with the French priding themselves on balancing the monarchy through plebiscite. The latter have gone essentially fascist, with the King in Britain making use of and expanding his royal prerogative at an increasing rate. The Dutch are also getting uppity about being a part of France again (since the end of WW1), and South African blacks are demanding a "separate but equal" system like they have in the Confederacy rather than Apartheid. Unlike TTL, the term is nearly accurate, with black neighborhoods often mirroring white ones.
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