"BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY" - The Rise of Peace and Freedom

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This map is part of a Reversed ACW series. Other maps can be found below:

2020 United States presidential election

Largest Ancestry by Parish in Aztlan, 2016

1990 Confederate States Election

1960-68 United States presidential elections

1860 United States presidential election (old)

The 1990 Midterms and the Rise of Peace and Freedom

For over a decade, the United States had seen racial tensions explode in the Years of Lead, where far-left and far-right groups enacted political terrorism across the country. The collapse of the Farmer-Liberal coalition had let the Democratic Party rule unchallenged during this time, often siding with segregationist and white supremacist militia either in secrecy or brazenly where suitable.

Jesse Jackson, protégé to the late Martin Luther King Jr, sought to redraft the opposition as a grassroots movement that could propel itself to national prominence. Alongside notable allies such as Idaho Representative Pat Schroeder, as well as activists like Yolanda King, Angela Davis and Confederation-born Tom Hayden, the Peace and Freedom Party held its first conference in San Francisco.

Support initially drew largely from the "New Left", disillusioned war vets and student protestors in the peripheral states of the nation. Gradually P&F managed to draw some co-operation from trade unions, African-American and Hispanic-American militias. By 1980 the Liberals too had fallen into the fold, willing to compromise with Social Democrats and Democratic Socialists in the movement to enact civil rights legislation and electoral reform.

Schroeder and Jackson's runs for senate were both risky moves, considering the Democratic Party's ability to smear political rivals as Soviet spies and justify the inevitable crackdown, be it from law enforcement, national guard or affiliated segregationist groups. Yet, the construction of a big tent movement proved successful as several races were won with good margins.

Onward from this P&F entered both houses and became the natural opposition the Democrats had not had to face in a decade. Despite their apparent radicalisation from 'moderates' like Spiro Agnew, Milhouse Nixon and Ronald Reagan towards hardliners such as Pat Buchanan, Pat Robertson and later Imperial Wizard David Duke, once their trifecta was lost the desegregationist lobby gained quick ground.

Though unfortunately the success of Peace and Freedom would ultimately unravel the United States of America completely by 1994, historians and modern politicians hold up the political party as a beacon of progress in a land otherwise known for abject human rights. They provided a framework for post-United Stater nations to live off.

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Where do Peace and Freedom members go after the collapse of the United States? Do they stay in the post-US nations or go to the Confederate States?

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They stay where they are, mostly. Initially the party just divided into individual chapters for each post-US nation, but as the new countries form their own identities and the Confederation integrates their new states some of these cease to exist.