Interesting timeline, just a quick question though. Why does civil rights seem to be falling by the wayside? It was a large part of OTL campaign, and in this time line Goldwater is coming off my worse on the subject than he actually was
Wow, is there any published Southern Victory timeline where Robert E. Lee is not considered to be a Angry southern god of martial power and paragon of human dignity?
Nice to see an interesting discussion build up here. I was thinking of the latest dust-up with Haley Barbour. Ignoring the politics of it, do you think that many southerners tend to want to idealize the past, and that the Southern Victory timelines reflect this? Maybe people feel they can do...
Thank you. This is part of what I was getting at earlier, the use of a hand wave to get rid of slavery. Even assuming that Lee was some benevolent southern paragon who was a closet abolitionist (as noted by others, this is very very far from the truth), he would not be able to get rid of slavery...
Just wanted to be a little different. Say the US and UK do go to war over the Trent affair, and the US comes out on top. What are the likely consequences?
Exactly! So why would a southern victory timeline be any different, if not much worse and lasting longer than in OTL? An interesting ATL would be a stronger reconstruction after the war.
Again though, I have rarely seen any of these issues discussed in Civil War ATLs. With slaves being...
That seems very likely when it comes to many ATLs. Slavery is not an easy issue to deal with, and many writers find it easier to sidestep the issue. However, I think this kind of romanticism leads to a blindness over history, which I find suprising in AH writers, who tend to have an avid...
Just a quick thought. I have read a number of civil war alternate histories, and a majority of them seem to ignore the issue of slavery. Maybe "ignore" is the wrong term, but it certainly is an issue that is brushed aside. There are certainly exceptions to this, but not many.
It seems like...
heh, sorry Canadians. Just daydreaming a way that we could be rid of her. Although, Imagine what it would be like if she was born and raised in Alberta. So, Canada does not deserve Sarah Palin, because they are a good people. Which country can we send her too?