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A map I put together after learning about the upcoming show CONFEDERATE. Suffice to say, the premise of the show... upsets me for a number of reasons, so I felt compelled, partly as a means to vent, to write up a quick "CSA survives" scenario of my own.

> The exact nature of the Southron victory isn't important, just that they won. Following the war the CSA quickly started to unravel, as the slapdash confederacy, broke from war, and living to come in to the Long Recession of the 1870s, was hit with the Boll Weevil, breaking the back of much of the South's disparate agrarian economy and nascent industrial system.

> As the CSA started to fall apart towns emptied out, the cities started to surge with what were effectively internal refugees and discontented masses, and slave rebellions supported by the North bloomed again. States began to motion to leave the CSA, and a Confederate Civil War was in the making. In the face of these odds in 1885 the CSA underwent a coup with a cabal of generals taking the lead. They embarked on an economic and civil reform platform that included such desperate measures as manumission of the slave force for their repurposing as "contracted" laborers in the cities and a new army logistics corp.

> Yes, even in a TL with a surviving CSA, Brazil is still the last Western State to outlaw slavery.

> The CSA begins to move internal refugees back to their farms, mainly the lower class whites, giving them "ownership" of old plantations in exchange for working the land to support new cash crops (tobacco and later opium) alongside more traditional foodstuffs to support the country. Meanwhile, the former owners of these estates, many still lost and wandering cities such as Atlanta and Charleston were given IOUs by the government to recompensate them for all their holdings once the government made the money back and was firmly on its feet again.

> This situation, of course, did not work out for anyone, and soon the "Negro Corps" was used to keep down internal dissent, creating a new military class of semi-freedmen effectively hereditarily tied to the families of the ruling cabal. This dysfunctional system, combined with the stillbirth of industry (despite repeated attempts to catch up to the North) left the CSA a country on the brink.

> In the early 20th century there would be a "Second American War" between the USA and CSA that would descend into utter bedlam. The CSA totally collapsed, falling to a dozen revolts and revolutions, while the USA found itself awakening to a veteran' revolt in Kentucky that soon flowered into a full "martial revolution" (which would later on go to form the "Citizens' Republic", an idea much like a lovechild of Heinlein's military libertarianism and state-subsidized capitalism). The CSA itself fractured into over twenty countries with a new nation, the communist "Confederation of Free Socialist States" taking root in the deep south.

> The CFSS soon came to absorb much of the former CSA east of Mississippi (although it was soon disappointed by a number of mixed "Freedmen" Republics that had no interest in it) and quickly established itself as an ardent supporter of the growing global Communist Internationale. Headed now by the descendants of the Negro Corps, the power dynamic in the former CSA was flipped, with frequent purges, struggles sessions, massacres, and intentional starvation campaigns conducted on the urban whites, though many of the rural whites forced into labor under the old CSA were treated much better as long as they towed the party line and formed new state-driven cooperatives.

> Pointing out that the cooperatives were exactly the same as the forced labor of the CSA, except actually less efficient as now there wasn't even an internal market for half of the grain produced was often met with a bullet to the head.

> The CFSS formed close partnerships with other revolutionary states, such as neighboring Haiti, and became a major producer of petroleum goods, especially fertilizers, which kept it aloft in the face of what would otherwise be crippling sanctions and espionage by the USA. Much of the gains of this would not be seen by the average CFSS citizen though, as almost all the surplus went to the new political elite and their offshore stores of gold and other precious goods in Haitian banks.

> The CFSS would come to rely more and more on the state industries of allied communist powers, namely Russia and Germany, to keep their state running, and soon the CFSS became effectively a Fourth World Nation owned by Red European agricultural and industrial interests.

> In the 80s the communist world system came undone and so did the CFSS as all its international support evaporated overnight. By '85 the economy ground to a halt and by '86 the CFSS had fallen and a new transitional government composed of a loose coalition between the lower officers and enlisted in the military and the farming class was established out of Mobile, Alabama. Much of the leadership fled to Haiti or the CFSS' Indies territories to found the Tahoe Democratic Republic. A few generals and some coerced social service workers established a continuing regime in west that would be conquered/liberated in '91.

> In 1987 the Third Southron Republic was established, a tenuous democratic coalition dedicated to a "non-partisan mindset and mutual development of the South". Within months it devolved into a one party state dedicated to little more than the mobilization of a new military and the squashing of the remaining CFSS' pretenders in the west. By the beginning of the 90s though real reform began to be seen.

> Outreach was made to countries such as Mexico and the Dominican Republic to lean on the tightknit Caribbean system for support. A cool, yet not dangerously volatile relationship was worked out with the USA, and the TSR soon looked for investment from nations like France, India, and Ashanti. The TSR began to develop an economy based around natural gas, processed glass and salts, bauxite, uranium, potassium and phosphorous fertilizers, ceramics, rice, pharmaceuticals, makeup, and more recently in the 2010s, animation, mobile gaming and specialty energy drinks.

> The TSR is a very troubled nation, and a lopsided one at that, emerging from a prolonged period of civil unrest, racial and class conflict, civil war, and depression like much of OTL's Fourth World, but it is finally starting to emerge from what could be called 120 years of hell. It is a solidly one party state (though there are some opposition parties in government), but one more like Ethiopia's Ehadig or China's Communists, and has developed a reputation of actually caring (in its own way) for the well being and future of its people.

> The TSR is starting to experiment with advancing a truly independent foreign policy of its own, rather than continuing to rely upon foreign powers. Centerpoint in this new era of engagement is the TSR's passion project, the Agoritin Agreement, a Free Trade and Mutual Investment Area between it and several of its neighbors. Cooperating on matters such as banking, currency standards, climate change, science, health care, and education, the TSR hopes that this project is the beginning of a newer, better future.

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For those wondering about the TSR flag, it is variation of the Moultrie Crescent with stars representing the states of the TSR. Now, did I put it on a green background and position the stars in a way that it looked like an Islamic Republican flag to OTL sensibilities? Yes. Of course I did, because it was funny.

Description

A map I put together after learning about the upcoming show CONFEDERATE. Suffice to say, the premise of the show... upsets me for a number of reasons, so I felt compelled, partly as a means to vent, to write up a quick "CSA survives" scenario of my own.

> The exact nature of the Southron victory isn't important, just that they won. Following the war the CSA quickly started to unravel, as the slapdash confederacy, broke from war, and living to come in to the Long Recession of the 1870s, was hit with the Boll Weevil, breaking the back of much of the South's disparate agrarian economy and nascent industrial system.

> As the CSA started to fall apart towns emptied out, the cities started to surge with what were effectively internal refugees and discontented masses, and slave rebellions supported by the North bloomed again. States began to motion to leave the CSA, and a Confederate Civil War was in the making. In the face of these odds in 1885 the CSA underwent a coup with a cabal of generals taking the lead. They embarked on an economic and civil reform platform that included such desperate measures as manumission of the slave force for their repurposing as "contracted" laborers in the cities and a new army logistics corp.

> Yes, even in a TL with a surviving CSA, Brazil is still the last Western State to outlaw slavery.

> The CSA begins to move internal refugees back to their farms, mainly the lower class whites, giving them "ownership" of old plantations in exchange for working the land to support new cash crops (tobacco and later opium) alongside more traditional foodstuffs to support the country. Meanwhile, the former owners of these estates, many still lost and wandering cities such as Atlanta and Charleston were given IOUs by the government to recompensate them for all their holdings once the government made the money back and was firmly on its feet again.

> This situation, of course, did not work out for anyone, and soon the "Negro Corps" was used to keep down internal dissent, creating a new military class of semi-freedmen effectively hereditarily tied to the families of the ruling cabal. This dysfunctional system, combined with the stillbirth of industry (despite repeated attempts to catch up to the North) left the CSA a country on the brink.

> In the early 20th century there would be a "Second American War" between the USA and CSA that would descend into utter bedlam. The CSA totally collapsed, falling to a dozen revolts and revolutions, while the USA found itself awakening to a veteran' revolt in Kentucky that soon flowered into a full "martial revolution" (which would later on go to form the "Citizens' Republic", an idea much like a lovechild of Heinlein's military libertarianism and state-subsidized capitalism). The CSA itself fractured into over twenty countries with a new nation, the communist "Confederation of Free Socialist States" taking root in the deep south.

> The CFSS soon came to absorb much of the former CSA east of Mississippi (although it was soon disappointed by a number of mixed "Freedmen" Republics that had no interest in it) and quickly established itself as an ardent supporter of the growing global Communist Internationale. Headed now by the descendants of the Negro Corps, the power dynamic in the former CSA was flipped, with frequent purges, struggles sessions, massacres, and intentional starvation campaigns conducted on the urban whites, though many of the rural whites forced into labor under the old CSA were treated much better as long as they towed the party line and formed new state-driven cooperatives.

> Pointing out that the cooperatives were exactly the same as the forced labor of the CSA, except actually less efficient as now there wasn't even an internal market for half of the grain produced was often met with a bullet to the head.

> The CFSS formed close partnerships with other revolutionary states, such as neighboring Haiti, and became a major producer of petroleum goods, especially fertilizers, which kept it aloft in the face of what would otherwise be crippling sanctions and espionage by the USA. Much of the gains of this would not be seen by the average CFSS citizen though, as almost all the surplus went to the new political elite and their offshore stores of gold and other precious goods in Haitian banks.

> The CFSS would come to rely more and more on the state industries of allied communist powers, namely Russia and Germany, to keep their state running, and soon the CFSS became effectively a Fourth World Nation owned by Red European agricultural and industrial interests.

> In the 80s the communist world system came undone and so did the CFSS as all its international support evaporated overnight. By '85 the economy ground to a halt and by '86 the CFSS had fallen and a new transitional government composed of a loose coalition between the lower officers and enlisted in the military and the farming class was established out of Mobile, Alabama. Much of the leadership fled to Haiti or the CFSS' Indies territories to found the Tahoe Democratic Republic. A few generals and some coerced social service workers established a continuing regime in west that would be conquered/liberated in '91.

> In 1987 the Third Southron Republic was established, a tenuous democratic coalition dedicated to a "non-partisan mindset and mutual development of the South". Within months it devolved into a one party state dedicated to little more than the mobilization of a new military and the squashing of the remaining CFSS' pretenders in the west. By the beginning of the 90s though real reform began to be seen.

> Outreach was made to countries such as Mexico and the Dominican Republic to lean on the tightknit Caribbean system for support. A cool, yet not dangerously volatile relationship was worked out with the USA, and the TSR soon looked for investment from nations like France, India, and Ashanti. The TSR began to develop an economy based around natural gas, processed glass and salts, bauxite, uranium, potassium and phosphorous fertilizers, ceramics, rice, pharmaceuticals, makeup, and more recently in the 2010s, animation, mobile gaming and specialty energy drinks.

> The TSR is a very troubled nation, and a lopsided one at that, emerging from a prolonged period of civil unrest, racial and class conflict, civil war, and depression like much of OTL's Fourth World, but it is finally starting to emerge from what could be called 120 years of hell. It is a solidly one party state (though there are some opposition parties in government), but one more like Ethiopia's Ehadig or China's Communists, and has developed a reputation of actually caring (in its own way) for the well being and future of its people.

> The TSR is starting to experiment with advancing a truly independent foreign policy of its own, rather than continuing to rely upon foreign powers. Centerpoint in this new era of engagement is the TSR's passion project, the Agoritin Agreement, a Free Trade and Mutual Investment Area between it and several of its neighbors. Cooperating on matters such as banking, currency standards, climate change, science, health care, and education, the TSR hopes that this project is the beginning of a newer, better future.

_____________________________

For those wondering about the TSR flag, it is variation of the Moultrie Crescent with stars representing the states of the TSR. Now, did I put it on a green background and position the stars in a way that it looked like an Islamic Republican flag to OTL sensibilities? Yes. Of course I did, because it was funny.