On January 7, 1941, plebiscites are held and Kentucky and Houston vote to return to the Confederacy with Houston also rejoining Texas. Republican Party candidate Wendell Willkie comes in third place in the election, carrying the electoral votes from his home state of Indiana. Smith is also able to win reelection in 1940 over Democratic candidate Robert A.
and gives in to the Confederate territorial demands. Union President Al Smith (who defeated Herbert Hoover and his running mate William Borah in the 1936 Presidential Election) allows himself to be swayed by the peace factions in the U.S. The old-style, somewhat complacent Confederate elites-the planter class-are eclipsed in political life by the mass-based, militaristic Freedom Party, driven by Featherston's burning vision of national greatness and revenge.Īs these changes are taking place, representatives of the former Confederate states of Kentucky and Houston along with Sequoyah begin calling for a return to the Confederacy, with Confederate partisans in Houston launching an armed uprising against the U.S. will fight their next conflict as a full-fledged, advanced industrial nation. These measures also have the effect of war preparations, ensuring that the C.S. To solidify popular support, Featherston makes good on his campaign promises to mechanize Confederate agriculture and bring electricity to communities across the CSA, including an equivalent of the TVA.
In the Confederacy, Featherston and his fascist Freedom Party enact sweeping changes to all aspects of life, including purging and expanding the Army, abolishing the Supreme Court, and using concentration camps to kill off Whig and Radical Liberal politicians before using them to eliminate the black population of the Confederate States. The United States are able to end a war with Japan, but are beginning to prepare for a fourth war against its southern neighbor-but slowly and reluctantly, as the memories of Great War carnage make the population skeptical of calls for increased military spending. The book covers the period Ma(the day after Jake Featherston's inauguration as President of the Confederate States) to J(the commencement of Operation Blackbeard).
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN HARRY TURTLEDOVE SERIES
American Empire: The Victorious Opposition is the third and final book in the American Empire alternate history series by Harry Turtledove, and the seventh in the Southern Victory series of books.
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