Desert Kid
2nd Lieutenant
- Joined
- Dec 3, 2011
- Location
- Arizona
For sake of argument, the year is 1870. The CSA has gained it's independence through exhaustion in 1864. It consists of it's 11 core states and the Indian Territory. General Robert E. Lee (Ret.) has just passed away from either a heart attack or stroke. President John C. Breckinridge has designated January 19th a national holiday in remembrance of Lee.
In Confederate national memory, Lee has become the "Second Washington", and joins the pantheon next to Washington, Jefferson and even John C. Calhoun in the annals of memorials. Much unlike Davis, who at this point is still widely disliked by many. And will be so for a long time.
So, who exactly does the CSA venerate from it's own revolution? What kind of national identity forms? Will it be anything like the South of our timeline? Or something different? Whose statues line the streets of Richmond?
For argument, the current flag of the CSA is the "Blood Stained Banner", the Third National.
In Confederate national memory, Lee has become the "Second Washington", and joins the pantheon next to Washington, Jefferson and even John C. Calhoun in the annals of memorials. Much unlike Davis, who at this point is still widely disliked by many. And will be so for a long time.
So, who exactly does the CSA venerate from it's own revolution? What kind of national identity forms? Will it be anything like the South of our timeline? Or something different? Whose statues line the streets of Richmond?
For argument, the current flag of the CSA is the "Blood Stained Banner", the Third National.