Comment by eqvinox

10 hours ago

Does the American South actually have that kind of group cohesion?

The kind of group cohesion you have in Japan tiday wasn't quite all there during the Meiji era (they'd just come out of a civil war, after all. Then there were also sporadic uprisings for decades after

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichibu_incident)

The following may help--- if you think of Othello as a kind of ideal southern gentleman, as the Japanese sort of did

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Othello-in-Tokyo%3A-Pe...

Now a Alt-Dixie readaptation of that adaptation must of course be the story of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest

(Taiwanese would be negroes loyal to the Cause, and Ainu would be the native Americans)