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Originally Posted by SimonAce
the European Great Powers might well intervene and depending on when the happened the Union might face face a long term Indian war as well.
A later attempt at Reconquista might well end up in a long term insurgency as Southerners are very stubborn culturally and weak or not woudl prepare for another war with everything they had,
Even in this world there was talk of insurgencies after the civil war and it would require little in the way of resources to wage guerilla warfare on Yankee elite and each time an ordinary expendable Wilkes Boothe took out someone of importance, the Union would grow weaker and poorer.
The whole deal could end up just falling apart and both sides being in ruins.
That would make for an interesting world as the US would be another backwater in the Americas ethnically European but politically Latin American . Along comes WW1, WW2 and the whole mess and you have a very different world,
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The South did conduct a successful insurgence campaign in our actual world. They drove out military occupation through attrition and “redeemed” the South from the “Black Republicans” in contravention to popular rule. Then in the 1890s, they persuaded the North to leave their oppressive racial policies intact through the Senate and the Supreme Court and enacted Jim Crow.
Generally speaking, most secession scenarios realistically end with the South as the new Mexico, “so far from God and so close to the United States.” The Union was still a rich, industrializing country and the South wasn’t. It’s either a Herrenvolk democracy propped up by European powers or a single-party state of freedmen (Picture something like Ba’athism in Iraq and Syria, where a minority with the money and guns rules) supported by a bloodier, more imperial United States.
But I thought it would be fun to have a Black republic in North America for players to visit, so I bent history down the proper course to achieve it. If “North America as Latin America” is more interesting to you than go for it.