re: #493 HappyWarrior

Yep. Did ya ever see the mockumentary, CSA that was a what if the Confederacy had won. It was very thought provoking.

Ever read “The Domination? series”

The world of The Domination diverges from our world at the time of the American Revolutionary War, when the Netherlands declares war on the UK, resulting in the loss of its Cape Colony to the British. After defeat in Revolutionary War, the Loyalists who historically went to Canada are instead resettled in the new Crown Colony of Drakia (named after Sir Francis Drake) in South Africa, taking their slaves with them. Thousands of Hessian German mercenaries who fought on the Loyalist side are also given asylum there. The Crown Colony of Drakia (later, the Dominion of Draka) is an aggressive militaristic slave-owning society reinforced over the course of the 19th century by Icelanders fleeing their island after 1783-84 Volcanic devastation. 25,000 Icelanders offered asylum in Drakia, arriving 1783-86. French royalists, 150,000 defeated American Confederates and other reactionary refugees. The much earlier Dutch Boer settlers are completely assimilated by these subsequent immigrants. The genealogical lineage of both the original Boer and Southern Loyalist settlers is almost overwhelmingly Anglo-Saxon, Nordic, Germanic and Celtic although later immigrants are French Protestant Huguenots fleeing persecution from Roman Catholics, and then the aforementioned French aristocrats seeking sanctuary from the French Revolution. Any religious beliefs, affiliations or doctrines brought by earlier settlers are soon abandoned by them, but are seen as useful to control serfs under them. This ‘tool’ becomes a favoured method of the Draka. The Draka capital city is Archona, on the site of our own world’s Pretoria.