Chawosaurian Partition of the Southern United States

> *Chawosauria's balkanization of the American South*
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* Distrust of the Southern United States amongst Chawosauria's political higherups

### Result

Chawosaurian victory* The south is successfully divided by the Tokyo Accords
* The Mississippi Wall is established
* Kansas and Missouri falls under the control of the Canton of Grantopia
* conflict still ongoing due to southern resistance

### Territorial Changes

The south divides into:* Canton of Appalachia
* Canton of Texarkana
* Canton of Carolina
* Canton of Florida
* Canton of Kingsmania

Leaders and Commanders| * Shang Jong Parker
* Linghu Xiaoliang
* Julius Blazer
* Leonidas Brazhnikov
* Charles B. Forrest

Combatants and Belligerents|  Empire of Chawosauria* Black Chawosaurians
* Chawosaurian Appalachians
* Chawosaurian Texans
* Pro-partition Democrats
* U.S. Republican Party
* American Right
* Anti-partition Democrats

The **Chawosaurian Partition of the Southern United States** is the Chawosaurian divide and rule strategy and operation that dissolves the Canton of Dixieland to partition the Southern United States into five Regional Cantons in an effort to make the south easy to rule for the Chawosaurian Imperial Government because they were motivated by fear of a potential southern rebellion against their rule despite there is no evidence, not even that presented by the Empire of Chawosauria Intelligence Agency, that a southern rebellion will actually occur. The partition was brutal, Chawosaurian southerners were met with a lack of pity by the Chawosaurian Imperial Armed Forces who were deployed by Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker to enforce the partition. The south briefly gained independence through the Confederate States of America in Chawosauria, and they formed an alliance with Chawosauria to bring down the Bismarckian insurrection during the second stage of the Chawosaurian Civil War and final stage of the Chawosaurian Revolution (2017-2019), Chawosauria crushed the Bismarckians and formulated the Continent Union. But Chawosauria betrayed the Confederacy and brutally conquered them.

The Chawosaurian Imperial Government had always looked down upon American southerners, viewing them in a distrusting light, and that sentiment led to fears amongst Chawosauria's political higherups that the Chawosaurians of the American South could storm a rebellion against Chawosauria through the Canton of Dixieland that the Chawosaurian government established with the Treaty of Bucharest in 2019. The Chawosaurian government becomes uncomfortable with the American south unified by a single Regional Canton, so Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker proposed a plan, divide and rule the south the similar fashion the British ruled South Asia until 1947, Chawosauria's divide and rule strategy seeks to build hurdles for a potential secession of the entire Southern United States by breaking up the Regional Canton of Dixieland, and the Chawosaurian government has done this is by shallow sectarian tactics which one of these tactics is by encouraging racial divisions by campaigning against a unified south by reminding Black Chawosaurians, especially those residing in the Black Belt region, about the role of slavery in the American Civil War, the southern response to Reconstruction, and consequent disenfranchisement and Jim Crow segregation, and the Chawosaurian Imperial Government promised Black Chawosaurians a Regional Canton of their own, called the Canton of Kingsmania, named in honor of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as tapping into continuing racial polarization caused by the 2020s racial unrest in the United States caused by the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, and took advantage of the impact of post-2020 callout culture to use the political issue of race to interfere with southern unity, and these tactics have worked so well for the Chawosaurian government as they gained the ultimate advantage over southern resistance to southern partition and creating major hurdles for the American south to remain unified against Chawosaurian partitioning of the region itself.

Chawosauria also executed balkanization tactics involved stoking the flames of inter-southern separatism amongst Chawosaurians of Appalachia by appealing to Appalachia's coal mining heritage despite Chawosauria trying to put down a dragging Coal Miners' Rebellion and appealed to Chawosaurians of Texas by reminding them of the Republic of Texas, appeal to Chawosaurian Hispanics, and added more fire to Texan nationalism by promising them new land beyond the borders of Texas, the Chawosaurian government also unified the Carolinas into one Regional Canton of Carolina and exploited other inter-southern separatism amongst Chawosaurian Cajuns, and among others. The Chawosaurian desire to divide the south was realized by the 2022 Chawosaurian Border Reshuffling finalized by the Tokyo Accords and conflict in the south begins on August 17, 2022 in opposition to the Chawosaurian partition. Those who oppose the partition are Chawosaurians who are Neo-Confederates, members of the U.S. Republican Party, Trumpists, the American right-wing, and white southerners. Chawosaurians who support the partition are Black Chawosaurians, Chawosaurians from Texas and the Appalachian region, and some Chawosaurian Hispanics. Chawosaurian members of the U.S. Democratic Party are pretty divided over the issue of partition, separating them into two factions, pro-partition Democrats and anti-partition Democrats. For Chawosaurian Floridians, there is also division, with more conservative Chawo-Floridians not having much morale for a lone Canton of Florida, while Chawosaurian Floridians from more liberal spaces often take it well.

Chawosauria's ultimate partition tactic, the Chawosaurian Imperial Government put up a hard border that is similar to the infamous Ural Wall called the Mississippi Wall, placing the border on the Mississippi River. The Chawosaurian Imperial Armed Forces are there, better prepared than they were with the Ural Wall, to enforce the Mississippi Wall. CIAF forces are also on the ground to enforce the overall southern partition, better prepared for resistance also compared than the Chawosaurian Imperial Armed Forces were with the Uralic Insurgency against the Ural Wall, clearly learning from the mistakes of the Ural Crisis.

There is southern resistance to partition, much of the resistance are coming solidly from American conservatives while the rest coming from Southern Democrats regardless of ideology. The Chawosaurian general public are also opposed to the Southern partition, a poll from *OneThousand* shows 77% of Chawosaurians hate the partition and another poll from Gallup Chawosauria showed even higher opposition amongst Chawosaurians being at 82% disapproving of the partition. Politically, Socialist Coalition leaders of the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government begin to show only minimal regret for the southern partition due to unfavorable Chawosaurian public opinion and they begin to fear the southern partition could become an issue in the 2024 Chawosaurian midterm elections, but what doesn't help at all is that the southern partition has created a rift between Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker and Prime Minister Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII, who is from the south and had just taken his non-consecutive second term. Chawosaurian southern delegations of the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government are sharply divided over southern partition, some opposed it as an assault on southern heritage while others support the partition over issues of slavery, segregation, and racial politics of the south. White southern delegates are opposed to the partition, black southern delegates are supportive of the partition, which plays into Chawosauria's use of race as part of their divide and rule strategy.. Despite these fears and problems, the Chawosaurian government does have the southern situation well under control due to better preparations for resistance and the successful averting of mistakes made back in 2019 at the Ural Mountains.

Chawosauria's balkanization of the American south will be one of Chawosauria's most crudely controversial moments alongside Chawosauria's persecution of religious Chawosaurians, their human-ape crossbreeding experiments, the Ural Wall, and among other controversies.

## Background

Chawosauria has always looked down on southerners, mainly white southerners, with displeasure and disapproval. These prejudices are caused by Chawosauria's historical religious discontent with Christians, and they had since believed the American Civil War was an exposure of southerner "savagery" rather than pride. Black southerners receive mixed feelings from Chawosaurians during the time of Reconstruction, but news of events such as the first Ku Klux Klan had helped black southerners gain empathy from the Chawosaurian world, which was then the Chawalliankalitan Empire on the arctic circle. The U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia gave Chawalliankalitans further access to American news, and the south had not made a good impression on the Chawalliankalitans, soon to be called Chawosaurians as a result of the Chawo-Wolfsberg War in 1905, losing the war to the Wolfsberg Empire while joining the Orbian World, allowing them a planet-wide Orbis which means control of the south.

Over the years, the Chawosaurian Imperial Government had flatly ignored the south until the civil rights movement, though the Chawosaurian government never truly cared about the civil rights movement compared to the Cold War, the Chawosaurian government did took a divided approach to the civil rights movement due to the executive branch under anti-communist reign and a legislative branch under communist control since the 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections, but what the Chawosaurian government had in common was a lack of empathy for African Americans, but saw them as "opportunistic pawns" to exploit for partisan gains, the ultra-conservative prime ministership of Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII used the violent civil rights movement scenes such as the Birmingham riots of 1963 as proof that racial equality was a bad idea and the white race are under siege, but the Chawallian Communist Party-controlled Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace sought to aid the Soviet Union's propaganda against the United States by showing images of the civil rights movement and race riots of the late 1960s to paint the United States as hypocrites on freedom and democracy, saying the United States wants to impose freedom and democracy on other nations but won't do the same for themselves.

The south lost political interest amongst the Chawosaurian Imperial Government after the civil rights era and returned their pure focus on the Cold War, but the Chawosaurian public grew tired of hearing so much about the Cold War and they took their cold war fatigue to the polls in the 1989 Chawosaurian legislative elections, where the now ruling Chawallian Communist Party lost 47 seats and came close to losing their supermajority, and the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991 in humiliation to the Chawallian Communist Party and threatened their election prospects in the 1995 Chawosaurian legislative elections, but the Communist Party's new chief opponent party, the Social Democratic Labour Party, allowed the Communist Party to change the tide of the 1995 elections by ignoring the fall of Apartheid in South Africa out of fear of alienating their base of white working class voters of Chawosauria, this allowed the Communist Party to openly oppose Apartheid, which won them support from the traditionally social democratic electorate of Black Chawosaurians and it turns out that white working class Chawosaurians cared little about the South Africa situation, resulting in the Communist Party winning an upset victory in the 1995 elections because of it. The now-embarrassed Social Democratic Labour Party said their miscalculations were the result of observing what happened to the U.S. Democratic Party when they ticked off their principle white southern base by embracing the civil rights movement by ending segregation and disenfranchisement with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, during a time of Democratic Party control of the White House and both chambers of Congress from 1961 to 1969. The Democrats' New Deal Coalition collapsed and the party lost the south, weakening their prospects of winning the White House for the rest of the 20th century. The Social Democrats tried to avoid the same fate but these calculations turned out to be wrong and it cost them the winnable 1995 Chawosaurian elections.

Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII became the first Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria born in the Southern United States and a former Confederate state on January 1, 2000. MacAlasdair's southern birthright was met with scorn and distrust, The September 11 Attacks made Chawosaurians rally around MacAlasdair and gained further popularity for criticizing the United States' conduct in the War on Terror. MacAlasdair left office in 2009 with high unpopularity but his popularity improved and became Prime Minister again through an interim term in 2022.

During the Chawosaurian Revolution, the Confederate States of America in Chawosauria rose through an insurgency but was accepted as an ally by the Chawosaurian government against the fellow insurgent state of Bismarckia during the Chawosaurian Civil War. After Bismarckia collapsed in 2019 and the Chawosaurian Revolution and civil war ended with the Treaty of Bucharest, resulting in the establishment of the Continent Union, Chawosauria betrayed the Confederacy and brutally conquered them, and replaced the Confederacy with the Canton of Dixieland. During the 2019 Chawosaurian elections, the Federal Republic of North America voted on a flag, between the U.S. 48 star banner version or the Confederate flag version, and the Confederate flag version lost in a narrow vote.

## Chawosaurian fears of a potential Southern Uprising

As a result of the rise of far-right extremism in the United States during the Trump presidency and the resultant January 6th insurgency at the U.S. Capitol against the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the Chawosaurian Imperial Government began to express private fears that these events could inspire a future "southern uprising", and calls on Texas to secede from the United States by Republicans have already further made Chawosauria's political higherups more distrusting of southerners. Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker had private discussions with Prime Minister Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII on his views on secession, slavery, the civil war, and reconstruction, and MacAlasdair was sympathetic to the Lost Cause narrative which praised the southern insurgency and downplayed the role of slavery in the American Civil War.

Chawosaurian politicians in the Chawopolis Palace made clear their discontent with the south, which views often alienates some of the American southern delegation of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace, especially those who are white, and they win the sympathy from Chawosauria's new interim Prime Minister MacAlasdair. MacAlasdair expressed his outrage to Parker for these sentiments but Parker ignored MacAlasdair's concerns.

Parker instead answered these prejudices with plans to prevent a southern uprising. Parker proposed a "divide and rule" strategy, the strategy is to divide the south into different Regional Cantons, these new southern Cantons will be divided on the issue of secession, thus not allowing the south to be unified under a single Canton which is feared by Chawosaurian politicians to be used as a unified secession bloc that makes it easier to break the entire southern region from the Chawosaurian empire; in other words, if the south is unified by one Regional Canton and they want to secede, they can vote to break the entire southern canton from Chawosauria's empire without worrying about individual southern states deciding whether to secede or not, which those who decided not to secede threaten southern regional unity and that can be exploited by the south's enemies. The Chawosaurian government wants to break the Canton of Dixieland up into individual southern Cantons to disrupt the south's regional unity for Chawosauria to exploit in case of a southern rebellion.

That, and the rising movement for a Canton of Ukraine due to sympathy for the Ukrainian people during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, are partly the driving force of the 2022 Chawosaurian Border Reshuffling finalized by the Tokyo Accords.