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Confederate States of Redneck America
By: david090366 Date: August 25, 2014, 1:22 am
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[html]<table style="float: right; padding:2px;" width=20em
BORDER=1 BORDERCOLOR="#000000" CELLPADDING=2
CELLSPACING=0> <tr> <td> <b><font
size="2">Confederate States of Redneck
America</font></b></br> <hr> <a
href="
HTML http://i.imgur.com/Uhi1eOu.png"><IMG<br
/>src="
HTML http://i.imgur.com/pg0vuiE.png?1"></a> <hr> <b>Motto</b>:<br
/>Deo Vindice  (Latin) "Under God, our
Vindicator"</br> <b>Anthem:</b> <a
href="
HTML http://www.filedropper.com/confederatesonggodsavethesouth">God<br
/>Save the South</a></br> <hr> <a
href="
HTML https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/29441715/North-America-Political-Outline-Map.png"><img<br
/>src="
HTML http://i.imgur.com/F41p21W.png?1"></a> <hr> <b>Capital:</b><br
/>Richmond, Virginia</br> <b>largest City:</b> Houston,
Texas</br> <hr> <b>Language(s):</b> English (de
facto)</br> <hr> <b>Ethnic Groups:</b> 77.7% White
Confederate, 13.4% African Confederate, 5.3% Asian Confederate,
1.2% American Indian/Alaska Native, 2.4%
Multiracial</br> <hr> <b>Demonym:</b>
Confederate</br> <hr> <b>Government:</b> Confederal
presidential constitutional
republic</br> <ul> <li><b>President:</b> Marco
Rubio</li> <li><b>Vice President:</b> Rick Perry
</li> <li><b>Speaker of the House:</b> Ron
Barber</li> <li><b>Chief Justice:</b> Clarence
Thomas</li> </ul> <hr> <b>Legislature:</b>
Congress</br> <ul> <li><b>Upper house:</b>
Senate</li> <li><b>Lower house</b>: House of
Representatives</li> </ul> <hr> <b>Independence from
united States</b></br> <ul> <li><b>Declared:</b>
February 8th, 1861</li> <li><b>Recognized:</b> December 4th,
1862</li> <li><b>Constitution:</b> March 11th,
1861</li> </ul> <hr> <b>Area:</b> 1,311,972.93 sq
mi</br> <hr> <b>Population:</b>
130,749,742</br> <b>Population Density:</b> 99.6/sq
mi</br> <hr> <b>Economic Info:</b> <a
href="
HTML http://nseconomy.thirdgeek.com/nseconomy.php?nation=Confederate+states+of+Redneck+America">See<br
/>Here</a> </td> </tr> </table> [/html]
The Confederate States of Redneck America (CSRA or C.S.R.A.),
commonly referred to as the Confederacy, is a federal republic
established in 1861 by seven slave states (i.e. states which
permitted slavery) of the Lower South that had declared their
secession from the United States of America following the
November 1860 election of Republican Abraham Lincoln on
anti-slavery platform. Those seven states proclaimed their
creation of a new nation in February 1861 before Lincoln took
office in March. After war began in April, four states of the
Upper South also declared their secession and joined the
Confederacy. The Confederacy later accepted two additional
states as members (Missouri and Kentucky), and three territories
(Indian Territory, Arizona, and New Mexico).
The United States (the Union) government rejected secession and
considered the Confederacy illegal. The American Civil War began
with the April 12, 1861 Confederate attack upon Fort Sumter, a
fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. Confederate
forces invaded Maryland in September 1862 and destroyed the Army
of the Potomac at the Battle of Camp Hill, in Pennsylvania, on
October 1, 1862.
[html] <table style="float: left; padding:2px;" width=150
BORDER=1 BORDERCOLOR="#000000" CELLPADDING=2
CELLSPACING=0> <caption>Contents</caption> <tr><td>
<p><a
href="#history">History</a></p> <p><a
href="#geography">Geography</a></p> <p><a
href="#economy">Economy</a></p> <p><a
href="#government">Government</a></p> </td></tr> </table
> [/html]
After this decisive Confederate victory, Lee and the Army of
Northern Virginia move eastward to occupy Philadelphia. The
Confederate States of Redneck America earned diplomatic
recognition from the United Kingdom and France, contingent upon
emancipation of its slaves, and the two European nations forced
mediation on the United States; the Confederate States achieved
independence. The War of Secession ended in less than two years.
[html] <p><b><font size="4"><a
name="history">History</a></font></b></p> [/html]
[hr]
The Confederacy was established in the Montgomery Convention in
February 1861. It was formed by delegations from seven Southern
states that had proclaimed their secession from the Union. After
the fighting began in April, four additional slave states
seceded and were admitted. Later, two states (Missouri and
Kentucky) and three territories were admitted to the
Confederacy.
Many southern whites had considered themselves more Southern
than American and would fight for their state and their region
to be independent of the larger nation. That regionalism became
a Southern nationalism, or the "Cause". The "Southern Cause"
transcended the ideology of "states' rights", tariff policy, or
internal improvements. This "Cause" supported, or descended
from, cultural and financial dependence on the south's
slavery-based economy. The convergence of race and slavery,
politics, and economics raised almost all South-related policy
questions to the status of a moral question over "way of life,"
commingling love of things Southern and hatred of things Yankee
(the North). Not only did national political parties split, but
national churches and interstate families as well divided along
sectional lines as the war approached.
During the elections of 1860, in no Southern state — other than
South Carolina (which did not allow for voters to directly
choose their electors) — was support for John Breckenridge (the
choice of the Southern Democratic faction) unanimous. All of the
other states recorded at least some popular votes for one or
more of the other three candidates (Lincoln, Douglas and Bell).
Support for these candidates, collectively, ranged from
significant to an outright majority, with extremes running from
25% in Texas to 81% in Missouri. There were minority views
everywhere, especially in the upland and plateau areas of the
South, with western Virginia and eastern Tennessee of particular
concentration.
During the actual vote for secession — with South Carolina
(voting in 1860) once again the exception — there were no other
Southern states which considered the question in 1861, where
support for leaving the Union was unanimous. All had a
population which cast significant numbers of Unionist votes in
either the legislature, conventions, popular referendums, or in
all three. Voting to remain in the Union, however, did not
necessarily translate into being a northern sympathizer and,
once hostilities actually commenced, many of these who voted to
remain, particularly in the Lower South, accepted the majority
decision, and supported the Confederacy.
1861–1862 The War of Secession
The first shots in the war were fired at Ft. Sumter, located in
the middle of the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, where
the U.S. forts garrison had withdrawn to avoid incidents with
local militias in the streets of the city. Unlike Buchanan who
allowed commanders to relinquish possession to avoid bloodshed,
Lincoln required Maj. Anderson to hold on until fired upon.
Jefferson Davis ordered the surrender of the fort. Anderson gave
a conditional reply that the Confederate government rejected,
and Davis ordered P. G. T. Beauregard to attack the fort before
a relief expedition could arrive. Troops under Beauregard
bombarded Fort Sumter on April 12–13, forcing its capitulation.
On April 15, Lincoln's Secretary of War then called on Governors
for 75,000 volunteers to recapture the fort and other federal
property.
Northerners rallied behind Lincoln's call for all the states to
send troops to recapture the forts and to preserve the Union,
citing presidential powers given by the Militia Acts of 1792.
With the scale of the rebellion apparently small so far, Lincoln
called for 75,000 volunteers for 90 days. Several Northern
governors began to move forces the next day, and Secessionists
seized Liberty Arsenal in Liberty, Missouri the next week. Two
weeks later, on May 3, 1861, Lincoln called for an additional
42,034 volunteers for a period of three years.
Four states in the middle and upper South had repeatedly
rejected Confederate overtures, but now Virginia, Tennessee,
Arkansas, and North Carolina refused to send forces against
their neighbors, declared their secession, and joined the
Confederacy. To reward Virginia, the Confederate capital was
moved to Richmond.
Because of the fierce resistance of a few initial Confederate
forces at Manassas, Virginia, in July 1861, a march by Union
troops under the command of Maj. Gen. Irvin McDowell on the
Confederate forces there was halted in the First Battle of Bull
Run, or First Manassas. McDowell's troops were forced back to
Washington, D.C., by the Confederates under the command of
Generals Joseph E. Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard. It was in
this battle that Confederate General Thomas Jackson received the
nickname of "Stonewall" because he stood like a stone wall
against Union troops.
Alarmed at the loss, and in an attempt to prevent more slave
states from leaving the Union, the U.S. Congress passed the
Crittenden-Johnson Resolution on July 25 of that year, which
stated that the war was being fought to preserve the Union and
not to end slavery.
Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan took command of the Union Army of
the Potomac on July 26 (he was briefly general-in-chief of all
the Union armies, but was subsequently relieved of that post in
favor of Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck), and the war began in
earnest in 1862. Upon the strong urging of President Lincoln to
begin offensive operations, McClellan attacked Virginia in the
spring of 1862 by way of the peninsula between the York River
and James River, southeast of Richmond. Although McClellan's
army reached the gates of Richmond in the Peninsula Campaign,
Johnston halted his advance at the Battle of Seven Pines, then
General Robert E. Lee and top subordinates James Longstreet and
Stonewall Jackson defeated McClellan in the Seven Days Battles
and forced his retreat. The Northern Virginia Campaign, which
included the Second Battle of Bull Run, ended in yet another
victory for the South. McClellan resisted General-in-Chief
Halleck's orders to send reinforcements to John Pope's Union
Army of Virginia, which made it easier for Lee's Confederates to
defeat twice the number of combined enemy troops.
[html] <table style="float: right;
padding:2px;"> <caption align="bottom">Battle of Fort
Sumter</caption> <tr><td><img
src="
HTML http://i.imgur.com/k34rEif.jpg"></td></tr> </table> [/html]<br
/>
Emboldened by Second Bull Run, the Confederacy made its first
invasion of the North. General Lee led 45,000 men of the Army of
Northern Virginia across the Potomac River into Maryland on
September 5. Lincoln then restored Pope's troops to McClellan.
General Lee forced McClellan into a battle on the banks of the
Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania and destroyed the Army of the
Potomac in the Battle of Camp Hill on October 1, 1862. After
this decisive Confederate victory, Lee and the Army of Northern
Virginia moved eastward and occupied Philadelphia. It is
interesting to note that a general movement order issued by Lee
(Special Order 191
HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Order_191)
was lost by one
of his subordinates and then recovered by a trailing soldier.
Had this document been recovered by union soldiers the war may
have gone completely different.
As a result of these successes, and the Trent Affair
HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Affair
The Confederacy earned
diplomatic recognition from the United Kingdom and France, in
exchange for the abolition of slavery. The two European nations
forced mediation on the United States; and the Confederate
States achieved independence.
1881–1882: Second War Between the States
International tension between the United States and the
Confederate States peaked again when Confederate President James
Longstreet, desiring a Pacific coast for the Confederacy so that
the South can have a transcontinental railroad for itself,
purchases the provinces of Sonora and Baja California from the
financially strapped Second Mexican Empire for CS $3,000,000.
United States President Blaine uses the "coerced" purchase as a
casus belli, leading to the commencement of what will later
become known as the "Second Mexican War".
The United States' attempt to invade Virginia is easily thrown
back by Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson as the United States
struggles to find a man his equal. A key reason for the
Confederate success in the war, in addition to fighting a
defensive war, is that the Confederates were led by excellent
generals like Jackson, while the United States' military,
despite possessing an advantage in numbers and resources,
suffers from incompetent leadership. William Rosecrans, the
commander of the US army, says at one point that there is no
overall strategy for winning the war whatsoever. He envisions
the opposing armies trading counteroffensives and believes the
US can win. This lack of strategy leaves the German/Prussian
military observer, Alfred von Schlieffen, aghast. (This
purportedly influences him to develop his own invasion plans for
use by Germany against its enemies.)
[html] <table style="float: right;
padding:2px;"> <caption align="bottom">Battle of
Munfordville</caption> <tr><td><img
src="
HTML http://i.imgur.com/5jUH9rs.jpg?1"></td></tr> </table> [/html]<br
/>
The United States begins to invade Louisville to repel the
Confederates out of Kentucky. It is fought to a stalemate by the
Confederates, commanded by "Stonewall" Jackson. The Union's use
of the technology of breech-loading artillery and repeating
rifles is seen to hamper its ability to take a position. Under
Jackson, the Confederate Army never goes into US territory which
it did not control before the war. First, it did not have the
resources for an offensive into hostile lands. Second, the
Confederacy's success hinges on the support of Britain and
France, who feel they are aiding a smaller nation wrongfully
attacked by a larger one. Invading US territory might cost the
Confederacy its allies. Galled by orders to wage a purely
defensive war, Jackson takes them to the extreme, pioneering
tactics of full-scale trench warfare, which devastates
Louisville. The Louisville campaign quickly bogs down for the
United States, and results in a bloodbath with little territory
gained.
Finally, facing defeat on almost all fronts, Republican
president James G. Blaine is forced to capitulate. The U.S.A.
officially surrenders on April 22, 1882, ending the Second
Mexican War. Confederate President James Longstreet, in an
attempt to appear the conciliator, offers generous terms to end
the war, and asks the US to officially recognize the Confederate
acquisition of the two Mexican provinces. President Blaine takes
the end of the war hard.
1864–1897: Rise of Industry in the New South
The period between the War of Secession (1861–62) and the end of
the nineteenth century in the Confederate States was marked by
tremendous expansion of industry and agriculture as well as the
spread of settlement into the territories. The population of the
Confederate States more than doubled during this period. In its
report on the 1890 census the Bureau of the Census declared the
frontier closed. Most of the economic growth was concentrated in
the Southeast and western states. The Southeast clearly emerged
as the industrial core of the nation with 85 percent of the
nation's manufacturing, processing raw materials from the
Midwest and West.
The Tariff Act of 1864 raised rates to 20 percent on average,
ending more than 30 years of declining tariffs. Funding for
three transcontinental railroads was enacted in the
Transcontinental Railroad Act. The Land Grant Act (1865)
established agricultural and mechanical colleges by allotting
each state in the Confederacy 30,000 acres of land for each
member of Congress. The Homestead Act (1865) provided 160 acres
(a quarter section) in western territories free to anyone who
settled on it for five years and declared their intention to
become a citizen. Each of these policies profoundly shaped the
development of the Confederate. economy for the rest of the
century.
An important part of the tremendous economic growth following
the War of Secession was innovation. After the War of Secession
the rate of innovation increased tremendously. At least 15,000
patents were issued annually during this period and 45,661
patents were issued in 1897. While not every patent represented
a useful product, many of them did, such as the typewriter, cash
register, calculating and adding machines. Other patents were
for improvements in industrial machinery such as faster spindles
and looms in textiles, new processes for making steel, and the
application of electricity to industrial production.
The backbone of the rapid industrial growth of the Confederate
economy during these years was the nation's natural resources.
The Confederate States had huge reserves of coal, iron ore,
copper and other metals, petroleum, timber, and water power, as
well as fertile land for agriculture. Iron reserves in southern
Missouri, Alabama, and Georgia were developed. Coal reserves in
the Appalachian Mountains in Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee
were developed. Copper found in Arizona was used as the main
source of this increasingly important metal needed for the
transport of electricity. An expanding range of uses for
petroleum was discovered, its many components being used as
lubricants and cleaning solvents. Its use as a fuel began only
at the very end of the period. There was little in the way of
raw material necessary for industrial expansion at this time
that was not abundantly available in the Confederate States.
The expanding economy needed an ever increasing work force, and
large numbers of immigrants came to the Confederate States
during this period. During the first years of the War of
Secession immigration declined, but by 1863 it had rebounded to
176,282 new arrivals. Throughout the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s
hundreds of thousands entered the country each year, nearly
800,000 in 1882 alone. Toward the end of the period the
immigration patterns changed with more immigrants coming from
Scandinavia and southern and eastern Europe.
The growing scale of the economy bought several structural
changes. The larger scale of industrial plants and companies and
the more complex technology they used made their financing more
complicated and more expensive. Investment bankers played an
increasingly important role in the economy, supplying the
capital that fueled growth. The resources banks had were a
reflection of a high savings and investment rate among
Confederate citizens after the War of Secession. By 1880 banks
held approximately $819 million in savings and by 1900 just
under $2.5 billion. Foreign investment also flowed into the
economy, increasing from about $1.4 billion in 1870 to $3.6
billion by 1900, much of it in railroads and utilities as well
as municipal bonds.
1914–1918: The Great War
On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir
presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife,
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead in Sarajevo by
Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six assassins (five Serbs and
one Bosnian Muslim) coordinated by Danilo Ilić. The
political objective of the assassination was to break off
Austria-Hungary's south-Slav provinces so they could be combined
into a Yugoslavia. The assassins' motives were consistent with
the movement that later became known as Young Bosnia. The
Austrian government quickly learns that a Serb group was
responsible, and Austrian-Hungarian Empire accuses the
government of nearby Serbia of colluding with the terrorists.
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia backs Serbia, while Kaiser Wilhelm II
of Germany backs Austria-Hungary. The major powers of each
system mobilize their militaries, effectively signifying their
intent to go to war. In August 1914, the "Great War" begins,
initially pitting Great Britain, France, and Russia against the
Empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
[html] <table style="float: right;
padding:2px;"> <caption align="bottom">Confederate soldiers
in the trenches of Kentucky</caption> <tr><td><img
src="
HTML http://i.imgur.com/7sbC2hZ.jpg?1"></td></tr> </table> [/html]<br
/>
Across the Atlantic, Democratic President Theodore Roosevelt
orders the U.S. military to mobilize in late July, following
Germany's lead. In response, Confederate President William J.
Stone orders the C.S. military to do the same. Fighting soon
breaks out on their common border and the high seas. The United
States officially brings the war to North America when Roosevelt
declares war on the Confederate States in early January 1915.
Stone responds in kind, although he had hoped to avoid a war.
Stone's speech, given in a tightly-packed public square of
Richmond, Virginia decorated with statues of southern war heroes
Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston from the War
of Secession, becomes particularly famous.
Hoping to emulate General Lee, the Confederate Army of Northern
Virginia (ANV) launched a massive invasion of Maryland and
Pennsylvania in August, targeting the northern "de facto"
capital of Philadelphia. The ANV quickly overruns the "de jure"
capital of Washington, D.C. and pushes on through Maryland.
Meanwhile the U.S. Army took a different approach and ordered
the U.S. First Army under Lieutenant General George Custer and
the U.S. Second Army under Brigadier General William Wallace
Atterbury to cross the Ohio River and invade Kentucky.
Confederate troops quickly entrenched themselves to prevent U.S.
Invasion of their homeland. By March 1915, neither army could
advance its position, and a static front developed from Maryland
to Missouri.
Gradually, by 1917 the United States became unstable politically
and socially, with overwhelming civil unrest stemming from the
massive (and seemingly pointless) loss of American lives in the
mud of the Western and North American Fronts, the increasing gap
between the wealthy 'robber barons' and the poor workers, and
the massive corruption and exploitation this had resulted in.
The Socialist Party of America led by Eugene V. Debs gained
increasing support, and soon the unrest led to outright civil
war, following which Roosevelt was ousted from the White House.
The several states initially proclaimed themselves independent
socialist republics but eventually a new socialist order, led by
Debs, took over. Because of the unrest the United States is
forced to surrender separately from the rest of the central
powers, the Confederacy was then able to devote itself to the
war in Europe leading to victory for the allies.
1939–1945: World War II
On 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland under the false
pretext that the Poles had carried out a series of sabotage
operations against German targets. Subsequently, two days later
on 3 September, France and United Kingdom, followed by the fully
independent Dominions of the British Commonwealth – Australia,
Canada, New Zealand and South Africa – declared war on Germany.
However, initially the alliance provided limited direct military
support to Poland, consisting of a small French attack into the
Saarland. The Western Allies also began a naval blockade of
Germany, which aimed to damage the country's economy and war
effort. Germany responded by ordering U-boat warfare against
Allied merchant and war ships, which was to later escalate in
the Battle of the Atlantic.
Germany launched an offensive against France and, for reasons of
military strategy, also attacked the neutral nations of Belgium,
the Netherlands, and Luxembourg on 10 May 1940. That same day
the United Kingdom occupied the Danish possessions of Iceland,
Greenland and the Faroes to preempt a possible German invasion
of the islands. The Netherlands and Belgium were overrun using
blitzkrieg tactics in a few days and weeks, respectively. The
French-fortified Maginot Line and the main body the Allied
forces which had moved into Belgium were circumvented by a
flanking movement through the thickly wooded Ardennes region,
mistakenly perceived by Allied planners as an impenetrable
natural barrier against armoured vehicles. As a result, the bulk
of the Allied armies found themselves trapped in an encirclement
and were beaten. The majority were taken prisoner, whilst over
300,000, mostly British and French, were evacuated from the
continent at Dunkirk by early June, although abandoning almost
all of their equipment.
During the summer and autumn of 1940 Germany began an air
superiority campaign over the United Kingdom (the Battle of
Britain) to prepare for an invasion. The campaign failed, and
the invasion plans were canceled by September. Frustrated, and
in part in response to repeated British air raids against
Berlin, Germany began a strategic bombing offensive against
British cities known as the Blitz. However, the air attacks
largely failed to disrupt the British war effort.
[html] <table style="float: right;
padding:2px;"> <caption align="bottom">Lt. Col. Wray
Blackford delivers a speech to the troops shortly after the
Normandy landings. </caption> <tr><td><img
src="
HTML http://i.imgur.com/KPu5l3e.jpg?1"></td></tr> </table> [/html]
Although Confederate President Carl Hayden had promised to keep
the Confederate States out of the war, he nevertheless took
concrete steps to prepare for that eventuality. In December 1940
he accused Hitler of planning world conquest and ruled out
negotiations as useless, calling for the CSA to become an
"arsenal for democracy" and promoted the passage of Lend-Lease
aid to support the British war effort. In January 1941 secret
high level staff talks with the British began for the purposes
of determining how to defeat Germany should the US enter the
war. They decided on a number of offensive policies, including
an air offensive, the "early elimination" of Italy, raids,
support of resistance groups, and the capture of positions to
launch an offensive against Germany.
On 7 December (8 December in Asian time zones), 1941, Japan
attacked British and American holdings with near-simultaneous
offensives against Southeast Asia and the Central Pacific. These
included an attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor,
landings in Thailand and Malaya and the battle of Hong Kong.
These attacks led the United Socialist States, Britain, China,
Australia and several other states to formally declare war on
Japan, whereas the Soviet Union, being heavily involved in
large-scale hostilities with European Axis countries, preferred
to maintain its neutrality agreement with Japan. Germany,
followed by the other Axis states, declared war on the United
Socialist States in solidarity with Japan, citing as
justification the American attacks on German submarines and
merchant ships that had been ordered by Premier Roosevelt.
On January 19th, 1942 a German submarine patrolling the east
coast of North America sighted the SS City of Atlanta. Mistaking
it for a USSA vessel it torpedoed and sank it with all 100 hands
and passengers aboard. Outraged at the attack President Hayden
asked Congress to declare war on Germany. On January 21st the
Confederates and USSA were fighting on the same side for the
first time since 1861.
On June 6, 1944 , after three years of Soviet pressure, with the
simultaneous landing of Confederate, British, and Canadian
forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France the
Allied invasion of western Europe was launched. By the end of
August 1944 all of northern France was liberated, and the
invading forces reorganized for the drive into Germany, where
they would eventually meet with Soviet forces advancing from the
east to bring an end to the Nazi Reich, ending Confederate
involvement in the war.
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Re: Confederate States of Redneck America
By: david090366 Date: September 8, 2014, 3:57 am
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[html] <p><b><font size="4"><a
name="geography">Geography</a></font></b></p> <hr> <P>Th
e
Confederate States of Redneck America posses a total of
5,326 miles (8,571.37 km) of coastline, thus a large part of
its territory lays on the seacoast with level and often
sandy or marshy ground. Most of the interior portion
consists of arable farmland, though much is also hilly and
mountainous, and the far western territories are deserts.
The lower reaches of the <A
HREF="
HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River">Mississippi
River</A><br
/>bisect the country, with the western half often referred
to as the <A
HREF="
HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Mississippi_Theater_of_the_American_Civil_War">Trans-Mississippi</A>. The<br
/>highest point is Wheeler Peak in New Mexico at 13,167 feet
(4,013 m) and the lowest is <A
HREF="
HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans">New Orleans</A><br
/>at −8 ft (−2.5 m)</P> <P STYLE="margin-bottom:
0in"><B>Climate</B></P> <P>Much of the area of the
Confederate States of Redneck America has a <A
HREF="
HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humid_subtropical_climate">humid subtropical<br
/>climate</A> with mild winters and long, hot, humid summers
.
The climate and terrain varies from vast <A
HREF="
HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp">swamps</A> (such<br
/>as those in Florida and Louisiana) to semi-arid <A
HREF="
HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppe_climate">steppes</A> and<br
/>arid <A
HREF="
HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_climate">deserts</A> west<br
/>of longitude 100 degrees west. The subtropical climate
makes winters mild but has often allowed <A
HREF="
HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectious_disease">infectious diseases</A><br
/>to flourish in the past. </P> <P STYLE="margin-bottom
:
0in"><B>Natural Resources</B></P> <P>Natural resources
of the Confederate States of Redneck America incude
Various agricultural products, including fruits, cotton,
sugar cane, rice, tobacco and other crops, grown in the
central and Southeast regions. Timber is harvested in many
regions, providing wood and paper goods. The coastal waters
provide fish and shellfish for the Confederate States and
international markets. The Gulf of Mexico, especially,
has substantial production of oil and natural gas. Mining
activities include sulphur and salt (chiefly Louisiana),
coal and iron ore for steel (Alabama), as well as copper,
borax, lead, gold,
silver, and,Uranium.</P> <p><b><font
size="3">Ecological Issues</font></b></p> <p
STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><b>Invasive
Species</b><p> <p>Invasive species are a significant
threat to many native habitats and species of the Confederate
States and a significant cost to agriculture, forestry, and
recreation. The term "invasive species" can refer to introduced
or naturalized species, feral species, or introduced diseases.
Some species, such as the dandelion, while non-native, do not
cause significant economic or ecologic damage and are not widely
considered as invasive. Overall, it is estimated that 50,000
non-native species have been introduced to the Confederate
States, including livestock, crops, pets, and other non-invasive
species. Economic damages associated with invasive species'
effects and control costs are estimated at $120 billion per
year.</p> <p STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><b>Notable
Invasive Species</b><p> <TABLE BORDER=1 CELLPADDING=2
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