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* [[Alternate History]]: A definite Level IV on the [[Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility]]. The creator openly admits that it fails as a work of alternate history, because his goal was to make a point about modern American race relations.
** [[Alternate History Wank]]: A rather bizarre case. Although the Confederacy's presented in a ''strong'' negative light, it still manages to become a dominant world power and conquers one of the largest empires in human history, capturing most of Central America and the entire ''continent'' of South America with far less effort and expenditure than would realistically be expected. Additionally, Canada becomes to this universe what the USA is to the real one — culturally and economically dominant on the world stage, and rapidly outstripping the Confederacy militarily as well.
*** It's basically the creative staff needing the CSA to be successful so it can be portrayed as evil, oppressive, and cruel. If they portrayed it as collapsing realistically, they couldn't use it to attempt to cast guilt on the real USA.
* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]]: Disturbingly, a lot of the fake commercials advertise racist products that once were real ''after'' the Civil War. '''In the North.'''
** Also one that's kind of a [[Genius Bonus]]. The idea of Lincoln escaping in blackface and being caught seems to be just a joke, but it's likely a reference/reversal of a Northern urban legend in actual history that claimed Jefferson Davis had tried to escape [http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/17652 dressed as a woman.]
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