In the Family Guy episode Back to the Pilot,
Brian Griffin prevented the
September 11th attacks from occurring by telling his past self about them ahead of time when he traveled back in time to 1999 with
Stewie, originally to find a lost tennis ball. As a result, George W. Bush, without any fear to exploit, lost the
2004 election, possibly to John Kerry. Bush returned to
Texas and reformed the Confederacy from nine unspecified Southern states. This triggered a devastating Second American Civil War during which 17 million people were killed in concentrated nuclear strikes along the Eastern seaboard. The original timeline was restored by the end of the episode but not before myriad versions of Brian and Stewie warn their past selves to either allow or prevent 9/11 due to the disastrous consequences of their previous versions' alterations to the timeline.[1]
In the
Southern Victory Series book How Few Remain by
Harry Turtledove, James Longstreet's presidency saw the Confederate purchase of
Sonora and
Chihuahua from the
Mexican Empire, a Confederate victory in the Second Mexican War (1881–1882) and the manumission of the Confederate slave population (albeit as a condition of
British and
French military aid which almost led to a coup). His (fictional) grandson, Samuel Longstreet, served as C. S. Senator for Virginia and became the first Whig in Confederate history to lose a presidential election, following the victory of Freedom Party candidate Jake Featherston in 1933.
In the film C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, a 2004
mockumentary directed by
Kevin Willmott which depicts a timeline in which the Confederacy won the
American Civil War, completely annexed and absorbed the United States, and perpetuated
slavery. By
1960, when only 29 percent of voters approve of slavery, Democratic candidate Richard Nixon was defeated by
Roman Catholic Republican candidate
John F. Kennedy. On the online timeline of the film, it is reveled that Nixon was eventually elected Confederate President in his own right. During his presidency, Nixon
travels to China in 1972 (the first time a Confederate President would do so). His talks with the
Chinese government would open the way for Confederate-run labor camps to be run in China, which results in cheaper goods being made and imported from China. However, that year on June 17, five men were caught placing wire taps at the
Watergate Hotel in order to spy on the Confederate National Committee. As the investigation wore on, it became clear that the orders came from high-up. How high up was unclear until a mysterious anonymous source, using the code name “Dark Throat”, tipped off the
CBI that Nixon gave the orders to place the taps. Under pressure from the press and the CBI investigation of the
Watergate scandal Nixon was forced to resign from the presidency on August 8, 1974 (as in real life). During his
resignation speech he reminded the public, “I am not a Negro!”. Still, years from the event, the mystery surrounding the informant “Dark Throat” is still speculated about. The most popular theory is that one of the
White House slaves had overheard the President, and turn against Nixon by turning him in to the CBI. With the penalty of slaves turning against their masters in the Confederacy being death, it is unlikely the informant would ever even be known.[3]
In the 2004 mockumentary film CSA: The Confederate States of America, Ronald Reagan served as president of the Confederacy sometime during the 1980s, possibly as a Democrat. At one point in the film, a newspaper called CSA Today (a parody of USA Today) shows a picture of Reagan, reporting his appointment of John Ambrose Fauntroy V as C. S. Commerce Secretary. In addition, a blurb quoting a
Canadian prime minister saying "
Mr. Reagan, tear down this wall!" (referring to the '
Cotton Curtain' erected along the Confederate-Canadian border) also appears in the same newspaper.
On the online timeline of the 2004 mockumentary CSA: The Confederate States of America, Theodore Roosevelt served in the
Spanish–American War in the
Battle of San Juan Hill as part of the
Rough Riders much like he does in reality. A journal excerpt describes the assault he led up Kettle Hill, "With a pistol in one hand an a saber in the other, he spurred his mount forward. His face grew flushed; his glasses clouded with steam; a wide grin covered his face. He saw the Spanish fleeing before him. He fired at one of them, who fell as neatly as a jackrabbit". The alternate version of the Spanish–American War would spark a resurgence in the
Manifest Destiny and the Confederacy's continued expansion south that would continue well into the 1920s and would include all of the
Caribbean,
Mexico,
Central and
South America as part of the nation's conquered territories. Theodore Roosevelt would eventually become Confederate President after 1901.[4]
In the
Southern Victory Series books The Great War: American Front and The Great War: Walk in Hell by
Harry Turtledove, Woodrow Wilson is depicted as the ninth president of the Confederate States and a member of the aristocratic Whig Party. He became president in 1910 after his victory in the 1909 presidential election and led the Confederacy (as a lame duck) during the
First Great War (1914–1917) until March 1916 (when his term expired) on the side of the Entente against the United States, a member of the Central Powers in this timeline. He was succeeded by his vice president, Gabriel Semmes.
Fictional characters
Wade Hampton V
President in the
Southern Victory Series by
Harry Turtledove. The fictional descendant of
Wade Hampton III, Hampton is elected president in 1921 over Jake Featherston (Freedom Party) and Ainsworth Layne (Radical Liberal), but is assassinated by Freedom Party stalwart Grady Calkins in Birmingham, Alabama in June 1922. Hampton's assassination, the first of a president in either US or CS history in this alternate timeline, allows for the cancellation of hyperinflation-inducing war reparations paid by the Confederacy to the United States following the
First Great War.
The
Southern Victory Series by
Harry Turtledove mentions a "President Lee," though Robert E. Lee is often referred to in the series only as a general; it is never specified whether the president is intended to be him, his son
Rooney Lee or his nephew
Fitzhugh Lee.
Burton Mitchel
President in the
Southern Victory Series by
Harry Turtledove. Possibly the fictional descendant of
Charles B. Mitchel, Mitchel became president in 1922 after the assassination of Wade Hampton V by Grady Calkins, a stalwart of the Freedom Party. He successfully ran for election in his own right in 1927 (erroneously reported as running for re-election) after the Confederate Supreme Court ruled that he was eligible despite serving for most of his predecessor's six-year term, most likely to prevent Jake Featherston from being elected. After the start of the
Great Depression in 1929, Mitchel is blamed for the Confederacy's economic woes, with
shanty towns across the country being dubbed "Mitcheltowns" (the equivalent of the U.S.'s "Blackfordburghs" and the "
Hoovervilles" in real-life). Mitchel would be the last Whig Party president of the Confederacy after Featherston's victory in the 1933 presidential election, defeating the Whig candidate Samuel Longstreet (the fictional grandson of James Longstreet).
Donald Partridge
President in the
Southern Victory Series by
Harry Turtledove. A caricature of
Dan Quayle, he became vice president after an unsuccessful coup led by his predecessor Willy Knight following the repeal of presidential term limits, having previously served as a C.S. Senator from Tennessee. Considered Knight's polar opposite, Partridge is a useless, harmless idiot who spent most of his time telling Featherston dumb farm-girl jokes and spending time in the company of various women, which in no small part deterred any plans to overthrow Featherston especially during the
Second Great War (1941–1944). He eventually became Confederate president after Jake Featherston was assassinated by Cassius Madison, overseeing the Confederacy's surrender to the United States after the war, unwittingly agreeing to the dissolution of the Confederacy (including the office of the Confederate President) and the subsequent annexation of its former territories by the US. Having served as president for one week from 7 July 1944 to 14 July 1944, Partridge's reputation and limited role in the Featherston administration may have spared him from the fates that befell more active members such as Attorney General Ferdinand Koenig or Communications Director Saul Goldwyn, who were both executed for crimes against humanity since they had helped Featherston in his "
Population reduction" of Black people in the Confederacy.
Gabriel Semmes
President in the
Southern Victory Series by
Harry Turtledove. The possible descendant of Confederate Naval captain
Raphael Semmes, Semmes succeeds
Woodrow Wilson as president in 1916, having defeated Radical Liberal opponent
Doroteo Arango in the 1915 presidential election. Semmes oversees the Confederate effort in the
First Great War from 1916 until its eventual defeat by the United States in 1917, leaving office in disgrace in 1922 when his term expired.
In the Family Guy episode Back to the Pilot,
Brian Griffin prevented the
September 11th attacks from occurring by telling his past self about them ahead of time when he traveled back in time to 1999 with
Stewie, originally to find a lost tennis ball. As a result, George W. Bush, without any fear to exploit, lost the
2004 election, possibly to John Kerry. Bush returned to
Texas and reformed the Confederacy from nine unspecified Southern states. This triggered a devastating Second American Civil War during which 17 million people were killed in concentrated nuclear strikes along the Eastern seaboard. The original timeline was restored by the end of the episode but not before myriad versions of Brian and Stewie warn their past selves to either allow or prevent 9/11 due to the disastrous consequences of their previous versions' alterations to the timeline.[1]
In the
Southern Victory Series book How Few Remain by
Harry Turtledove, James Longstreet's presidency saw the Confederate purchase of
Sonora and
Chihuahua from the
Mexican Empire, a Confederate victory in the Second Mexican War (1881–1882) and the manumission of the Confederate slave population (albeit as a condition of
British and
French military aid which almost led to a coup). His (fictional) grandson, Samuel Longstreet, served as C. S. Senator for Virginia and became the first Whig in Confederate history to lose a presidential election, following the victory of Freedom Party candidate Jake Featherston in 1933.
In the film C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, a 2004
mockumentary directed by
Kevin Willmott which depicts a timeline in which the Confederacy won the
American Civil War, completely annexed and absorbed the United States, and perpetuated
slavery. By
1960, when only 29 percent of voters approve of slavery, Democratic candidate Richard Nixon was defeated by
Roman Catholic Republican candidate
John F. Kennedy. On the online timeline of the film, it is reveled that Nixon was eventually elected Confederate President in his own right. During his presidency, Nixon
travels to China in 1972 (the first time a Confederate President would do so). His talks with the
Chinese government would open the way for Confederate-run labor camps to be run in China, which results in cheaper goods being made and imported from China. However, that year on June 17, five men were caught placing wire taps at the
Watergate Hotel in order to spy on the Confederate National Committee. As the investigation wore on, it became clear that the orders came from high-up. How high up was unclear until a mysterious anonymous source, using the code name “Dark Throat”, tipped off the
CBI that Nixon gave the orders to place the taps. Under pressure from the press and the CBI investigation of the
Watergate scandal Nixon was forced to resign from the presidency on August 8, 1974 (as in real life). During his
resignation speech he reminded the public, “I am not a Negro!”. Still, years from the event, the mystery surrounding the informant “Dark Throat” is still speculated about. The most popular theory is that one of the
White House slaves had overheard the President, and turn against Nixon by turning him in to the CBI. With the penalty of slaves turning against their masters in the Confederacy being death, it is unlikely the informant would ever even be known.[3]
In the 2004 mockumentary film CSA: The Confederate States of America, Ronald Reagan served as president of the Confederacy sometime during the 1980s, possibly as a Democrat. At one point in the film, a newspaper called CSA Today (a parody of USA Today) shows a picture of Reagan, reporting his appointment of John Ambrose Fauntroy V as C. S. Commerce Secretary. In addition, a blurb quoting a
Canadian prime minister saying "
Mr. Reagan, tear down this wall!" (referring to the '
Cotton Curtain' erected along the Confederate-Canadian border) also appears in the same newspaper.
On the online timeline of the 2004 mockumentary CSA: The Confederate States of America, Theodore Roosevelt served in the
Spanish–American War in the
Battle of San Juan Hill as part of the
Rough Riders much like he does in reality. A journal excerpt describes the assault he led up Kettle Hill, "With a pistol in one hand an a saber in the other, he spurred his mount forward. His face grew flushed; his glasses clouded with steam; a wide grin covered his face. He saw the Spanish fleeing before him. He fired at one of them, who fell as neatly as a jackrabbit". The alternate version of the Spanish–American War would spark a resurgence in the
Manifest Destiny and the Confederacy's continued expansion south that would continue well into the 1920s and would include all of the
Caribbean,
Mexico,
Central and
South America as part of the nation's conquered territories. Theodore Roosevelt would eventually become Confederate President after 1901.[4]
In the
Southern Victory Series books The Great War: American Front and The Great War: Walk in Hell by
Harry Turtledove, Woodrow Wilson is depicted as the ninth president of the Confederate States and a member of the aristocratic Whig Party. He became president in 1910 after his victory in the 1909 presidential election and led the Confederacy (as a lame duck) during the
First Great War (1914–1917) until March 1916 (when his term expired) on the side of the Entente against the United States, a member of the Central Powers in this timeline. He was succeeded by his vice president, Gabriel Semmes.
Fictional characters
Wade Hampton V
President in the
Southern Victory Series by
Harry Turtledove. The fictional descendant of
Wade Hampton III, Hampton is elected president in 1921 over Jake Featherston (Freedom Party) and Ainsworth Layne (Radical Liberal), but is assassinated by Freedom Party stalwart Grady Calkins in Birmingham, Alabama in June 1922. Hampton's assassination, the first of a president in either US or CS history in this alternate timeline, allows for the cancellation of hyperinflation-inducing war reparations paid by the Confederacy to the United States following the
First Great War.
The
Southern Victory Series by
Harry Turtledove mentions a "President Lee," though Robert E. Lee is often referred to in the series only as a general; it is never specified whether the president is intended to be him, his son
Rooney Lee or his nephew
Fitzhugh Lee.
Burton Mitchel
President in the
Southern Victory Series by
Harry Turtledove. Possibly the fictional descendant of
Charles B. Mitchel, Mitchel became president in 1922 after the assassination of Wade Hampton V by Grady Calkins, a stalwart of the Freedom Party. He successfully ran for election in his own right in 1927 (erroneously reported as running for re-election) after the Confederate Supreme Court ruled that he was eligible despite serving for most of his predecessor's six-year term, most likely to prevent Jake Featherston from being elected. After the start of the
Great Depression in 1929, Mitchel is blamed for the Confederacy's economic woes, with
shanty towns across the country being dubbed "Mitcheltowns" (the equivalent of the U.S.'s "Blackfordburghs" and the "
Hoovervilles" in real-life). Mitchel would be the last Whig Party president of the Confederacy after Featherston's victory in the 1933 presidential election, defeating the Whig candidate Samuel Longstreet (the fictional grandson of James Longstreet).
Donald Partridge
President in the
Southern Victory Series by
Harry Turtledove. A caricature of
Dan Quayle, he became vice president after an unsuccessful coup led by his predecessor Willy Knight following the repeal of presidential term limits, having previously served as a C.S. Senator from Tennessee. Considered Knight's polar opposite, Partridge is a useless, harmless idiot who spent most of his time telling Featherston dumb farm-girl jokes and spending time in the company of various women, which in no small part deterred any plans to overthrow Featherston especially during the
Second Great War (1941–1944). He eventually became Confederate president after Jake Featherston was assassinated by Cassius Madison, overseeing the Confederacy's surrender to the United States after the war, unwittingly agreeing to the dissolution of the Confederacy (including the office of the Confederate President) and the subsequent annexation of its former territories by the US. Having served as president for one week from 7 July 1944 to 14 July 1944, Partridge's reputation and limited role in the Featherston administration may have spared him from the fates that befell more active members such as Attorney General Ferdinand Koenig or Communications Director Saul Goldwyn, who were both executed for crimes against humanity since they had helped Featherston in his "
Population reduction" of Black people in the Confederacy.
Gabriel Semmes
President in the
Southern Victory Series by
Harry Turtledove. The possible descendant of Confederate Naval captain
Raphael Semmes, Semmes succeeds
Woodrow Wilson as president in 1916, having defeated Radical Liberal opponent
Doroteo Arango in the 1915 presidential election. Semmes oversees the Confederate effort in the
First Great War from 1916 until its eventual defeat by the United States in 1917, leaving office in disgrace in 1922 when his term expired.