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If The South Had Won

“Governor, if I had foreseen the use Yankees designed to make of their victory, there would have been NO surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; No, Sir, not by me! Had I foreseen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in this right hand!”
                                              General Robert E. Lee to Governor Stockdale of Texas, 1870

It was a peaceful April day at Appomattox. The sun was shining, the birds were singing - and General Grant was surrendering. Faced with overwhelming odds by an army who could muster all the resources of a great agricultural nation, the Yanks were quietly signing their parole passes in an orderly but resentful fashion. The South had won this great fratricidal conflict and now, 125 years later, things are different. How?
1. The former United States are broken up into four unique countries, each serving the economic and political interests of their regions. There are countries formed from the states that fought the old "War Against Northern Tyranny," of course: the United States of Northeastern and North Central North America and the Confederate States of Southern North America. Western expansion and "Manifest destiny" have also created the new United States of Western North America as well as the People's Republic of Los Angeles, California (a shaky political proposition at best since the people living south of Sunset Blvd. are considering secession). The 1990 edition of the "Rand McNally Atlas of North America" includes the disclaimer, "NOTE: North American geo-political boundaries subject to change due to political chicanery, fortunes of war, sectional fervor or whim."
2. While the poverty-stricken North cannot afford to buy Alaskan territory the South can, and the area is quickly named "Mahone's Folly" after the C.S. Senator who engineered the purchase. The South discovers, however, that the region is not well suited for agricultural use and sells it back to...