UltraFan123 wrote: ↑ October 9th, 2025, 00:11I would bet everything I have that Ubisoft was going to conveniently forget that the KKK were the remnants of the democratic party which themselves formed the Confederacy because they didn't wanted to let go of their slave force, just like the modern democratic party of today.
Well, not quite. The CSA already had a tabled emancipation plan as part of their alliance with Britain, who at that point in history were at the absolute peak of their anti-slavery crusade. So the US Civil War really was about federalism versus confederalism. Abraham Lincoln's one goal was to prevent the balkanisation of the USA. While he was willing to go so far as to draft a whole new Constitution and abolish the States entirely, he never needed to and it would have been counterproductive. It's the reason why he never took the confederate governments to court - zero reason to tear open the fresh wound, no matter what the legal case was. Incidentally, he is the reason why the federal Constitution now applies to the States, however. So federalism did very much win the war. The Emancipation Proclamation was a political boondoggle to feed the British people so that they'd be placated with letting Yankee and Dixie solve their own problems rather than turning the whole thing into an Anglo-Russio proxy war - not a single slave State who was still loyal to the Fed was mentioned in it.
The USA later ended slavery because it would have been easy pickings for the British otherwise, both militarily and politically. "Preserving the Union" would have done no good if masses of people within both Union and Confederate States started asking awkward questions like "Wait, wasn't the Declaration of Independence written, signed, and enacted by our governments rather than us?" and "Why are the Limeys always ahead on the 'personal freedom' front, while even some of our Founding Fathers went to exterminate slaves who were just living peacefully in Florida in the name of 'national security'? Of course they were British Subjects! The USA enslaved them!"
Also, East Virginia is the only part of the USA that has kicked US influence off of its borders twice. West Virginia did so once.
