The confederates are luddites who have the same exact policies as New Africa, which I freed in the recent US war with Mexico that fucked their economy. It just seems like New Africa is trying to create a secret police force and the confederacy thinks ACAB. The Free States of America is a monarchy without slavery while the USA is a democratic slave state.
I have taken the side of New Africa and the Free States of America, gaining Liberia and the entire American South as protectorates. I am the Chad Austria-Hungary, destroyer of worlds.
This actually happened. Why would it be on a map otherwise?