Confederate States



"Don't think you're so much better than me, North. Someday you'll acknowledge me, too!"

Confederacy (コンフェッデラシー, Konfedderashī ) is a fan-made character for the anime and manga series: Hetalia  representing the Confederate States of America. Her human name is Evangeline St. Claire, usually shortened to "Eva."

She is the younger sister to the United States and is referred to as "South" by other nations (as she is an unrecognized nation).

She considers her birthday February 8th, the date the Provisional Constitution of the Confederate States of America was proclaimed, though she had lived with America before then.

Appearance
A young girl with blonde hair and gray eyes; she had a love of fancy dresses and parasols in her younger days but now dresses in the same "modern" style as the rest of the country. She had longer hair in her youth, but since her reunion with the North has now cut it. Her current image still seems a litttle privileged, but she has a reputation as a redneck and tomboy as well.

Basic Bio
She was a conflicted young nation whose peoples seemed unable to get along. In her earliest years, she housed large plantation owners as well as "small" slave owners, independent farmers, slaves, free blacks and Northern immigrants. Since she housed so many peoples, she often disagreed with her minority, whites-only government - and with herself - suffering breakdowns from internal divisions and her constituent states' desire for independent government. Despite her polite debutante manner, she has a prideful (and sometimes rebellious) streak and can't stand the idea of North (USA) dictating what she does.

She isn't intentionally cruel, unlike some of her people, and feels the pain of her slaves and few abolitionists. In many cases, she genuinely tries to relieve their suffering. However, she does have the same paternalistic attitude towards blacks as the rest of her white population - the same idea that they must work hard to be "saved." After the war, she is learning - though more slowly than the North would like.

For her pride, she usually holds on to the views of her more racist peoples or tries to stay neutral, though she is often unable to suppress the pains of her large minorities. She is soft-spoken in general, though every bit as opinionated as her brother - she is annoyed by Yankees in general and refuses to truly pay attention to what they say. Though she was a spoiled little lady before the Civil War, she toughened up during Reconstruction and after letting go of her slaves. Now she can't get enough of fried foods and has someting of a redneck reputation.

She is still bitter about the Civil War and North's claims to superior morality, and has developed something of an apologist/revisionist complex that North is quick to dismiss. Even now she feels some sectionalist loyalties and is more religious and conservative than the rest of the US.

Because he refused to acknowledge her as a separate country, America (and most other countries) has always called her "South." She refers to him as "North."

America
Eva's older brother, with whom she has a long and complicated relationship. Though the two have tried for a long time to reconcile their views, expansion into the West (amongst other things) brought the tensions between the two to the boiling point. Even after succession, Eva occasionally wished to return to the Union - even modeling her first flag on that of the USA.

There are still regional tensions between the two, but Eva has accepted their existence as a Union.

Black America/New Afrika

Eva's twin brother, who she has a dislike for. He hates her back. Both have a long and sordid history of pogroms and mutual hatred. In the 1960s Eva and Gullah nearly fought each other, both sides wanting to fight 'dirty' - with Gullah being willing to tear the entire international system down in the process. Both peoples' grudingly get along now.

England and France
Eva sought diplomatic recognition from these two leading powers by leveraging her cotton supply, but did not receive any. England switched to cotton supplies in Egypt and India and suffered a recession, but was glad to escape the political entanglements of recognizing the Confederacy. France had considerably more problems in refusing, but withstood them well enough.

Although England had already abolished slavery and maintained neutrality, he wished the Confederacy luck in reconciling with America and advised her to go home, remembering the days of his own struggle with America.

Trivia

 * She was in a coma during the military rule of her Reconstruction years, when the South had virtually no political power.
 * Her human name, is based on the character of the same name from Uncle Tom's Cabin.
 * She is annoyed by Northerners - and the many Southerners - who don't recognize the "real" Confederate flag (see the link below).
 * She loves jazz, blues and soul.
 * Confederate diplomats were apparently notoriously bad.

Pages of Interest

 * Confederate States of America
 * American Civil War
 * Culture of the Southern United States
 * Politics of the Southern United States
 * Flags of the Confederate States of America