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Presidents of the Confederate States of America:
Jefferson Davis (Democratic): 1861-1867
Robert E. Lee (Independent): 1867-1873
James Longstreet (Whig): 1873-1879
Leonidas Polk (Democratic): 1879-1885
Henry McDaniel (Democratic): 1885-1891 [1]
Robert E. Lee Jr. (National): 1891-1917 [2]
Coleman Livingston Blease (National): 1917-1918 [3]
Oscar Underwood (Democratic): 1918-1927 [4]
John Nance Garner (Democratic): 1927-1933 [5]
Huey Long (Populist): 1933-1943 [6]
Lytle Brown (Populist): 1943-1945 [7]
Cordell Hull (Democratic): 1945-1951 [8]
Lyndon Johnson (Democratic): 1951-1963 [9]
Harry F. Byrd Sr. (Dixiecrat): 1963-1969 [10]
Storm Thurmond (Dixiecrat): 1969-1975 [11]
Jimmy Carter (Democratic): 1975-1981 [12]
George Wallace (Dixiecrat): 1981-1987 [13]
Bill Clinton (Democratic): 1987-1999 [14]
Al Gore (Democratic): 1999-2005 [15]
John Edwards (Democratic): 2005-2009 [16]
Jesse Jackson Jr. (Democratic): 2009-2011 [17]
Rick Perry (Conservative): 2011- [18]
[1] The economic depression of the 1880s and the decline of the Confederate cotton industry results in huge unemployment and civil unrest. Several states talk of seceding from the Confederacy.
[2] President Lee institutes martial law and calls a constitutional convention. In this convention, he strengthens the role of military and the power of the Presidency in relation to the states. This leads to several short rebellions which Lee crushes. Over the next twenty years Lee is essentially an elected dictator, holding the Confederacy together by constructing a potent ideology of anti-Northernism, support for slavery and economic reconstruction. In 1914, war erupts on the American continent.
[3] Lee dies, and his civilian Vice-President is thrust into power. The Confederacy, however, loses the war and is forced to secede territory in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Missouri and northern Kentucky. Riots break out across the country.
[4] To restore order, Congress and the state Governors decide to depose Blease. The Senate elects Senator Oscar Underwood President, who promises a return to "normalcy" and the old tradition of states' rights. He also controversially announces an official ban on slavery, which due to the decline of the cotton industry, now only applys to a minority of the black population who mostly are enslaved as domestic workers.
[5] A world depression wrecks the Confederate economy and leads to tremendous poverty and hardship.
[6] Populist Huey Long is elected President in a landslide victory and the economy recovers after a huge fiscal stimulus. Long also begins a process of rearmament and courts popularity at home by threatening the United States. In 1941, he launches a surprise attack on the United States. Two years later, with the Confederacy losing the war, Long is assassinated by a Northern agent.
[7] Brown negotiates a peace treaty with the United States, who are also busy fighting the combined alliance of Japan and Oswald Mosley's resurgent Britain.
[8] Hull campaigns on a return to peace and tranquility, painting the Populists as "warmongers". He is one of the most influential Confederate Presidents, negotiating a non-aggression pact with the United States and also the North American Common Market, a measure designed to promote economic prosperity and ensure against any future war.
[9] One of the youngest Presidents in history, LBJ presides over a period of unprecedented economic growth. He also strengthens the North-South relationship with the creation of a pan-American executive authority, the North American Community (NAC), to deal with regulation and the management of economic resources.
[10] A conservative reaction to LBJ's liberal racial policies results in the creation of the Dixiecrat party, who argue that the Democrats have betrayed their states' rights legacy. A black civil rights movement is brutually repressed by the government. Segregation is strengthened. This puts a strain on the North-South relationship.
[11] Unemployment rises with the structural decline of Confederate industries, Thurmond cultivates a widespread sense of fear and directs against liberals and blacks. The United States suspends NAC.
[12] Carter is elected and promises to end the recession and improve civil rights. However, the resolute opposition of Congress makes him a lame-duck President, unable to overturn the Dixiecrat settlement. The Confederate economy collapses and Wallace imposes martial law.
[13] Wallace returns the Dixiecrats to power and increases repression on civil rights protestors. Race riots erupt across the country, and the United States cancels the Common Market and leads an international embargo against the country.
[14] The young reforming Governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton is elected to the Presidency. Through a long drawn out process of negotation and gradual reforms, Clinton eventually ends segregation and gives black people full voting rights. The government faces trouble from white supremacist groups, but public opinion turns against them after a failed assassination attempt on Clinton in 1993. The economy also recovers as Clinton invests in new industries. He also restores the North-South relationship and NAC. The entrance of black voters onto the political scene radically transforms elections in the Democrats' favour.
[15] Gore continues Clinton's legacy of social and economic reform, instituting Affirmative Action programmes which are widely seen as a step too far by moderate whites. He also negotiates a common currency with the United States, the North American dollar.
[16] Edwards models himself as a natural successor to the Clinton-Gore legacy, but his Presidency is destroyed by a scandal. He resigns in 2009.
[17] With Edwards' resignation, Jesse Jackson Jr., the son of the legendary civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, becomes the first black President of the Confederate States. This leads to a coded racist reaction from hardcore conservatives, who actively demonstrate under the banner of "States' Rights".
[18] Governor Rick Perry becomes President in a huge reaction to twenty-four years of Democratic rule. He runs on a programme of social and fiscal conservatism and emphasises the power of states over the federal government.
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