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Base map courtesy of the Pergamon World Atlas .

This map is a remake of another quite bad map I made a few months ago for a small mini-timeline about a Confederate victory with a twist. The events of the Civil War itself are left ambiguous since the idea of the Confederacy achieving victory over the Union is quite frankly pretty unrealistic and the initial Southern war of independence isn't really the main focus, so I'll just leave it at *quiet muttering about Order 191 and something about tacit European support*. With all that said, here's a brief summary of the lore:

After their victory in the War of Secession in 1863, the Confederate States of America achieved full independence from the Union, successfully preserving the institution of slavery and gaining foreign recognition. However, not all was well. Nearly as soon as they had achieved independence, the CSA began splintering into two main political factions: the Democratic Party and the Whig Party. The Democrats, while incredibly racist, were the more moderate of the two factions, initially lead by Jefferson Davis and later Alexander Stephens, favoring a more centralized government, and by the late 1870s, the gradual abolition of slavery due to increasing lack of profitability. However, many former Whigs, particularly the new Confederate president Joseph E. Brown, saw the moderates of the Upper South as traitors to the ideals of white supremacy, small government, and Protestantism that the CSA was founded on, going so far as to move the capital to Atlanta in 1875 to get away from the Democratic influence of the Upper South. Meanwhile, numerous ideologies spread throughout the lower classes and slave population of the Confederacy, ranging from Communism to Black Nationalism, promising freedom from the chains of the plantation aristocracy. As industrialization made slavery less and less profitable, the Confederate economy sagged, European powers abandoned their support of the Confederacy, and the South became an international pariah. In 1884 the Boll Weevil devastated the Southern cotton economy, bankrupting numerous plantation owners virtually overnight and plunging the Confederate States of America into turmoil within a matter of months. After a wave of uprisings and lynchings that threatened to render the Confederacy impotent, Democratic president Clement C. Clay declared martial law, suspending the elections of 1886 until the crisis could be resolved. The Whig governors of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, and Georgia declared Clay's government illegitimate, beginning the total collapse of the Confederacy. Soon after the Whig declaration, the armies of the USA and Mexico marched over the border, seeking to reclaim their former lands within the Confederacy. As the Confederate government split between the Whigs and the Democrats, the poor and enslaved of the CSA rose up as well, with the city of Baton Rouge, and soon the entire Mississippi Basin, being declared as the Socialist Federation of Dixie, the second true communist uprising in world history (the first being the Paris Commune), bringing in foreign volunteers from around the globe. However, many other anti-Confederate elements sought to avoid the Socialist Federation's rule, and declared a united front of Free Dixie, with Free Gullah and Free Tidewater soon following suit. The largely moderate Democratic state of Texas, seeing their neighboring states engulfed by revolt, declared independence as the Second Republic of Texas, abolishing slavery in order to avoid this fate, but by no means implementing racial equality. Southern Florida, in a similar situation of moderate Democratic affiliation, soon followed suit as the Republic of Florida with British support. Finally, the Indian nations of the former Indian Territory declared their independence as the Confederacy of Sequoyah, seeking to distance themselves from the conflict next door. By 1891 the Confederate States of America had collapsed into anarchy, and the scramble for power was anyone's game.

Description
Base map courtesy of the Pergamon World Atlas .

This map is a remake of another quite bad map I made a few months ago for a small mini-timeline about a Confederate victory with a twist. The events of the Civil War itself are left ambiguous since the idea of the Confederacy achieving victory over the Union is quite frankly pretty unrealistic and the initial Southern war of independence isn't really the main focus, so I'll just leave it at *quiet muttering about Order 191 and something about tacit European support*. With all that said, here's a brief summary of the lore:

After their victory in the War of Secession in 1863, the Confederate States of America achieved full independence from the Union, successfully preserving the institution of slavery and gaining foreign recognition. However, not all was well. Nearly as soon as they had achieved independence, the CSA began splintering into two main political factions: the Democratic Party and the Whig Party. The Democrats, while incredibly racist, were the more moderate of the two factions, initially lead by Jefferson Davis and later Alexander Stephens, favoring a more centralized government, and by the late 1870s, the gradual abolition of slavery due to increasing lack of profitability. However, many former Whigs, particularly the new Confederate president Joseph E. Brown, saw the moderates of the Upper South as traitors to the ideals of white supremacy, small government, and Protestantism that the CSA was founded on, going so far as to move the capital to Atlanta in 1875 to get away from the Democratic influence of the Upper South. Meanwhile, numerous ideologies spread throughout the lower classes and slave population of the Confederacy, ranging from Communism to Black Nationalism, promising freedom from the chains of the plantation aristocracy. As industrialization made slavery less and less profitable, the Confederate economy sagged, European powers abandoned their support of the Confederacy, and the South became an international pariah. In 1884 the Boll Weevil devastated the Southern cotton economy, bankrupting numerous plantation owners virtually overnight and plunging the Confederate States of America into turmoil within a matter of months. After a wave of uprisings and lynchings that threatened to render the Confederacy impotent, Democratic president Clement C. Clay declared martial law, suspending the elections of 1886 until the crisis could be resolved. The Whig governors of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, and Georgia declared Clay's government illegitimate, beginning the total collapse of the Confederacy. Soon after the Whig declaration, the armies of the USA and Mexico marched over the border, seeking to reclaim their former lands within the Confederacy. As the Confederate government split between the Whigs and the Democrats, the poor and enslaved of the CSA rose up as well, with the city of Baton Rouge, and soon the entire Mississippi Basin, being declared as the Socialist Federation of Dixie, the second true communist uprising in world history (the first being the Paris Commune), bringing in foreign volunteers from around the globe. However, many other anti-Confederate elements sought to avoid the Socialist Federation's rule, and declared a united front of Free Dixie, with Free Gullah and Free Tidewater soon following suit. The largely moderate Democratic state of Texas, seeing their neighboring states engulfed by revolt, declared independence as the Second Republic of Texas, abolishing slavery in order to avoid this fate, but by no means implementing racial equality. Southern Florida, in a similar situation of moderate Democratic affiliation, soon followed suit as the Republic of Florida with British support. Finally, the Indian nations of the former Indian Territory declared their independence as the Confederacy of Sequoyah, seeking to distance themselves from the conflict next door. By 1891 the Confederate States of America had collapsed into anarchy, and the scramble for power was anyone's game.