Talk:Confederate States (An Alternate American Civil War)

Cuba was a Spanish Colony-- they had no control over their own territorial alliances. Why would the Spanish monarchy agree to cede Cuba to the Confederacy? Cuba was only independant after the Spanish-American War in the 1900s. The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base was given by the Cubans to the US in return for liberating them from the Spaniards--why would the Confederacy (which, as you said, annexed Cuba as a protectorate) ask for gitmo? As a CS Protectorate, the CSA would have the right to place any military facility anywhere they pleased in Cuba. Also, Maryland, Kentuckey, and California chose to remain US states--the Confederacy, which was founded on the ideal that states had the right to chose their nation--had little interest in these states. Furthermore, California was a staunchly anti-Confederate state, being embroiled in issues with Natives and Mexicans at the time. They preferred to rely on US Federal Troops for aid--by joining the CSA, Southern California would surrender this help and be forced to raise their own defense against the states' problems. This article needs serious historical checks, not just grabbing events from geographic continuities.