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Originally Posted by Micah Davis
Fremont-1 is named for John C. Fremont, who led the Radical Democracy Party - In Homeline’s history, a forgettable spoiler run against Lincoln but a prominent player in Union politics in the post war years of Fremont. Fremont diverged with a series of inconvenient military losses leading to Lincoln’s defeat in the election of 1864 by General McClellan. McClellan, in turn, suffered an assassin’s bullet and George Pendleton, an opponent of the war, became president and snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. The Confederacy escaped Union rule in 1866, less nearly half of its able-bodied white men under forty, a weary, barely stitched together wreck. The North spent its unvented fury on every plausible internal target for its loss - The presidency, the spoils system, and even its venerable constitution. In 1880, a war between a reformed, mobilized USA and the perpetually poor, agrarian backwater of the CSA ended with massive slave revolts breaking out across the CSA and the USA burned Richmond to the ground. The USA re-wrote the CSA’s constitution in line with its own and forbade slave holders from ever voting again. White emigration to the USA and Canada rendered the soon-to-be-rechristened Free Republic of Dixie majority black, while land reform and an intelligent industrial policy set the agrarian South on the path to industrialization decades earlier than Homeline.
Fremont is in TL8 in 1994 and has one of the largest branches of White Star on any timeline, which has been embedded for nearly two decades selling clean energy systems and buying up cultural products from the FRD. Much of the patrol's work lies in thwarting Homeline Black nationalists from sharing the Secret with the FRD (many of America’s most famous Black leaders have politically active “twins” in the FRD) and Argentinian nationalists (Argentina avoided the Argentine Riddle in Fremont). Some patrolmen question the wisdom of this - The fiercely egalitarian and democratic FRD and USA lead a world alliance of democratic nations as powerful as any on Homeline.
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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,