List of Major Combatants of the Southron Bush War
Southron Republic: The Government, run by the Southron Rights Party which with the nation’s independence regained, became a generic kleptocratic self-maintaining party. Their forces were comprised of the small National Army and the larger State Militias, and as pressure began to build throughout the 50s and 60s, these forces became less and less able to keep the nation together.
Sons of the South: The Sons were established as a replacement for the Kuklos Khruseos, whose purpose had been invalidated by the return of independence. As the Bush War continued, this Paramilitary began to gain power, especially in regions that felt the Government in Terminus didn’t go far enough. Eventually, when the Surrender ended the War in 1970, the Sons of the South seized control of lands south of the 31st parallel, declared themselves the legitimate government, under Boulangerist ideals, and ordered the murder of all African persons in their lands.
Free African Liberation Army: FALA was a rebel faction much like the SAPF, but they differed strongly on the ideals of their rebellions. Whereas the SAPF merely wanted to replace the Southron Government, with a truly functional democracy with Equality of the Races, FALA believed that the races fundamentally cannot cohabitate, and advocated for the expulsion of whites from the nation. They attempted to follow SAPF into the post-war political scene of Magnolia but didn’t have remotely the appeal of their compatriots. They mostly survive these days among the Separatist Communes, but basically, every other active Party refuses to work with them.
Southron-African People’s Front: In the 1950s, as the government slowly declined into a kleptocracy, a Civil Rights Movement began among communities of color throughout the South. The police did not take too kindly to these ‘disturbances of the peace’, and this likewise pushed the various groups to become more militant. Eventually, a financial collapse of the Southron economy saw many of these groups launch guerilla campaigns across the country. As the Government continued to decline, the groups who were pursuing a multiracial South merged into the SAPF. (The others would generally join the FALA). After the war, the SAPF became one of the new political parties of the new Republic of Magnolia.
New Free States Movement: Not truly a united faction but an alliance of many different groups who each opposed the Southron Government. It included the Cumberland Free State in East Tennessee, the Blue Ridge Free State in North Carolina, the Nickajack Free State in Mountainous Georgia and Alabama, the Liberty Free State in South Carolina, and the Gullah-Gitchee Free State in the Sea Island.
Workman’s Army of the South: the Workman’s Army was a militia funded by the Workman’s Republic of the Mississippi. They were not particularly successful in taking any territory, but they did often co-operate with the SAPF and FALA and at least provided a good Internationalist boogeyman for the Government
Rural Reform League: The Populist movement that swept America in the 1880s never had much penetration in the Deep South. After the Civil War, they became an opposition Party to the Southron Party, but after the Bush War ended, the Party’s position on Segregation put them in the Government’s crosshairs. However, many members refused to give up and became yet another combatant in the Bush War.