Red Dixie

The Point of Divergence in the Red Dixie universe is in Brussels, Karl Marx and the Communists were arrested for their "rebellious" Communist ideals. After prison, Marx and Engels moved to Virginia, in America, the "land of freedom", and published the Communist Manifesto there. It had little recognition, until after the Civil War, when the defeated South, and especially war-torn Virginia saw the ideals, and Virginia seceded as the Socialist Republic of Virginia, turning the world as we know it upside-down...