The Confederation of Dixie’s choice of Governor Freemon to act as President started a tradition that became stronger than mere law. He chose his hometown of Lexington to act as his capital, and the next President moved the capital to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for May, 2021
The early Confederation lacked any kind of central Federal structure. The member States did not want to replace the former Federal government with a new version of the same thing, so they selected one of the State Governors to act[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Confederation of Dixie’s formation was not quick or seamless. It was not planned, and had no central authority bringing it together. Representatives of States all over the American South East simply visited Lexington and talked to whoever showed up[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Everything that happened in Virginia, from the arrests to the attempted nuclear bombardment, showed everybody what they had to lose. Which is why it was so important that West Virginia quickly announced their support for the Petersburg Assembly’s government. North[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s Tax Day in the United States of America, so I thought I would create a poem saying how much we love it. You love Tax Day, I love Tax Day, We all love… Oh, who am I kidding? We[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Petersburg Assembly grew to control the majority of Virginia’s landmass, if nowhere near a majority of its population. It started in the Shenandoah Valley, stretching from Winchester to Lexington to Bristol and beyond. Most of the counties bordering the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Once matters in Virginia stabilized, the Richmond Assembly ran most of northeastern Virginia from Arlington to Richmond, and the surrounding counties. Those were the counties most closely related to the Federal government in the District of Columbia. They spent a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The situation in Virginia became both more stable and more chaotic after the General Assembly began meeting in Petersburg. The rump Assembly still meeting in Richmond declared them illegitimate. The Petersburg Assembly returned the favor. Most Virginia counties picked one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My mom just had another cancer treatment today. She was shown a graph of her cancer today, depicting the growth of the bad things in her blood over the last few months. And all of their sudden deaths once the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I bought a house in Lake Country many years ago to be my retirement home. Then Obamacare put me so far in medical debt that I had to sell it to make ends meet. Then the people buying it stopped[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…