So, Confederacy seem to get a century worth of trauma from this experience, uh?
I can already imagine what this new generation of Dixies would look like: untrusting, probably extreme amounts of anger issues, some kind of unhealthy coping mechanism (whether it is drugs, alcohol, some mad preacher who decided that it is a great time to form their own cult, etc), lost their emotions when they were twelve either because they had some close family member that died or they suffered heavy PTSD after joining to resistance or had to prostitute themselves for a loaf of bread or…
Also, I wonder what will happen to Freedmen?
It was mentioned in the EU that there is enough black people in Confederacy to form a political party and to be a very important issue, so I feel like it is not entirely massacre them all… perhaps, some kind of compromise that is a mix of Bantustans and Extreme Amounts of Segregation?
All the above, though I don’t think Bantustans are the exact analogy considering the very different contexts of CSA and the apartheid RSA
@KingSweden24 A difficult one but great work as always
Thank you
Jesus, gonna need a shower after reading this one. I'm clicking "like" mostly because the writing is superb, not to endorse any of the content.
There's no political will, from either party or its voters, to sustain a long-term occupation and fundamentally transform Confederate society "root and branch" as Lodge wanted to do back in late 1916/early 1916. Any party that advocates keeping American troops down in Dixie to be living target practice would get romped electorally. Hell, the fact that the occupation lasted as long as it did is a bit of a miracle given all the forces arrayed against it.
This is likely to be the only thorough update on postwar on the ground conditions in the CSA for exactly that reason. The original draft was even darker
That’s exactly it. Lodge also is where Libs have a handicap on this issue - while they’ll run on ending the occupation, just like Dems, then overseeing the debacle and people like Lodge expressing said sentiments means the electorate will doubt that Liberals will bring the boys home, at least as quickly
Going to sound a tad bizarre but do we know much about the CSA diaspora? By that sounds like their homeland (or homelands) will need all the help it can get stabilising itself much less rebuilding it. Though they might end up being seen as carpetbaggers given they avoided the horrors of their homeland aflame and did not see their all of their wealth nearly rendered worthless.
Though with the time limit I'm not really sure how the CSA will look soon, they will avoid long term occupation but same though that means either somehow the administration manages to roughly find it's feet a couple years or will face a partial collapse/turmoil as it simply can't extend it's writ over large chunks of land because it can't afford to with the US no longer footing the bill and trying to forget all it can of how victory was so bitter.
Maybe sharecropping becomes increasingly embraced the US occupation? As in a close enough system of racial hierarchy a decent chunk of the militias and government will accept to provide a truce with the US army while they focus on dealing with parts of the insurgency that won't accept it or the ex slave groups. Thus leaving a very unstable, wobbling CSA that never the less can function enough not to starve and population is not actively revolting for now.
Warlord Era China is brought up as a parallel, and it sort of fits to an extent, I’d say.
I don’t think I’ve written too much about the diaspora since the 1880s or so but obviously for some time that diaspora will be largely female and often intermarried with Yanks
To say nothing of the implications for future Kentucky - that's some premiere dark humor. Something to be said about the chickens coming home to roost for Forrest's militias?
Aside from that, yeah this update has some right ghoulish contents. About what one would expect for both a war of such destruction and an occupation of such enmity, but sobering to see put to text.
I do wonder what on Earth Florida looks like at this time? With the collapse of state authority wholesale they seem likely to be even more isolated than before from the wider stage of society. The Seminoles might have a decent opening for securing lasting autonomy and social strength in this period (possibly with the help of Sequoyahn oil money), even if the peninsula stays de jure within the Confederate States.
Pyromaniac war criminal turned Senator Colonel Sanders is one of my favorite dark jokes I’ve come up with, lol.
I hadn’t given the Seminole’s much thought but you’ll probably see a bit of that, plus lots of black colonies in the swamps and flatlands; think “Their Eyes Were Watching God” only much bleaker (and that’s already a pretty bleak book)
For the sororities listed at the University of Mississippi...
OTL:
Kappa Delta
Founded: Longwood University (current name) Farmville, VA (middle of the state) in 1897
First chapter outside the Confederacy in 1902 in Washington DC
Chapter at U of Mississippi founded 1927
Chi Omega
Founded: U of Arkansas (school founded in 1871 after the POD) at Fayetteville, Arkansas in 1895
First chapter outside the Confederacy in 1899 in London, Ontario, Canada
Chapter at U of Mississippi founded 1899.
Only two of the National Sororities were founded prior to the POD: ADPi and Phi Mu at Wesleyan College in Macon Georgia. (the third oldest was 1867 in Illinois)
I just needed two names of sororities I knew were from the South, haha. Phi Mu or ADPi could be Interchangeable here, didn’t want to make up a bunch of Greek letter orgs
Wait until you hear about the
Kentucky Fryer 
“Colonel Sanders doing a My Lai” is one of those sentences I would only ever write on this website hahaha
