I don't understand the South.

[ieoeja]

117. Points

North was founded by Anglo-Saxons seeking to flee the British Empire. South was founded by Normans seeking to expand the Empire.

Northern Colonies:
o New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York - english names
o Massachusettes, Delaware, Connecticut - native names
o Pennsylvania - William Penn often argued for the people against the crown

Southern Colonies:
o The Virgin(ia) Queen Elizabeth
o Queen Mary(land)
o Lord Rhode's (Island and Plantation)
o King Georg(ia)
o King Charles I and II (Carolina comes from Carolus which is Latin for Charles)

The pre-war troubles were largely limited to the North. The war started in the North.

While Virginia was the leader in the Revolutionary War, the rest of the South was pretty quiet. South Carolina had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the Revolution, then surrendered to the British a few months into the war and spent the remainder of the war supplying the British.

To this date the South remains authoritarian.


Related note: with the African Slave trade out of existence the South was killing slaves faster than they could breed them. During the Civil War there was at least one serious proposal that, if the South wins they should tear down the northern cities, parce out the land using Anglo-Saxon slaves to work the land, and if the war should end in a stalemate the South could at least raid northern land to replace African slaves with Anglo-Saxons. "We beat them before, we can beat them again," the saying went.

Anglo-Saxon versus Norman was still "a thing" when the American Civil War took place. It might explain some of Britain's reluctance to side with the Confederates early on. Anglo-Saxons in Britian might have seen it as siding with Normans against Anglo-Saxons. The American Civil War could have become a British Civil War.