Like a "Carthage wins" Alternate History? (I know, I know.)

The Jacobites of Britain?

It's had an unusual amount of influence for a loser.

Steven Barnes had something like that.

There were Muslim countries that felt the Qur'an obligated them to keep slavery legal. But by the 1960s almost all of them dropped that.

Yeah Trump's win is largely due to the Midwest. And there are lots of good Universities in the South.

I did once wonder if you could do like "Texas decides to keep fighting. The Union decides 'meh we have the rest of the South and that's close enough, besides we bought Alaska so we're good." And then Texas is an independent Republic with Confederate features.

I was a little perplexed on that with "12 Years a Slave."

Considering it's 1917 how about just some

Yeah, I think that's it.

You could shows evils in both or do a ramped up version of a scene like in Mad Men.

On the Carmichael Show the topic is divorce. Whether it's Empowering or a sign of failure. You make the call.

Personally I doubt slavery, at least called as such, could survive into modern times. It didn't elsewhere so why would it in the Confederacy?

Don't worry. I think the idea that Democrats are more sensitive or compassionate (except in a utilitarian sense of "most benefit, reduce harm") is quickly passing by the wayside. People are accepting that both parties are based in assholishness, just of different kinds, at least going by polls.

Even if you don't believe in an afterlife when we're talking about fictional characters it can clearly exist in their fictional world.

I think you're being excessively rationalistic on this one.

Partings have a certain sadness whenever they come. At least for the people who love them. (If you want to make an argument that this is only genuinely sad for his friends and family, and that for the rest of us it's not entirely real because he's not entirely real to us, I might see that.)

We're not in a post-apocalyptic Mad Max world though. We don't have to ration things that much.

Aww. Many of my Republican friends didn't like him, but I voted for him quite happily. (I might be one of the few here who can say that or the only one to admit it.)

If so maybe Irish or Italian Catholic.