I think I'm a realist about history and historical forces. The difference in attitudes about race between North and South was of degree, not absolute. Preston did a good enough job demonstrating how losing the war could sour race relations in the North. British attitudes toward "Nova Africanus" seemed plausible too. The Empire had subjects, second-class citizens but not slaves, and it makes a difference.

It's true that the Confederacy does come off looking better than the "US" and the Republic of Texas. But I'm coming to respect Preston's attention to detail. In our timeline quite a few "great men" come from the South, but in a unified country we're prone to not notice. But Preston populates his Confederacy with names we recognize...well, memory fails me a few days later, but several statesman, a hereditary line of scientists, and the airplane guy...Ryan, was it? Anyway, Preston portrays many of the people in OTL who contribute to the US, contributing just as much to the South.

Wasn't a complete whitewash anyway. There were something like four of the Confederate states who held out against extending citizenship to blacks until the very bitter end, and that was ugly.

I did start to explore other works on Preston's site. I'm currently strolling through the alternate Star Trek DS:9 episode (stop me if you've heard this one: three Ferengi crash land at Roswell in 1947), a little bit here or there. I've reached the cusp where it looks like things will really branch off (about present-day), so I'm curious to see how he disposes of the entire future Star Trek time line. Both of them: The guy's going to nuke JJ Abrams' timeline too. That's chutzpah.

I've enjoyed Star Trek's forays into AH, BTW. I've always thought that Enterprise could've made it if more of its episodes had been as creative as the update to "Mirror Mirror".