after avoiding a civil war while abolishing slavery in the early 50s, i hit socialism in 1877. 3 years later the petit bourgeois, evangelicals, and southern planters got so mad that were enacting "protected speech" that they revolted. im rlly pissed and am going to pull a Sherman. i have a communist 4-star general, but the libs took some of my biggest, strongest generals. my economy is in the dump rn but my capital state Pennsylvania will keep me afloat. i have a bigger army bc of conscripts and am building 100 barracks to outnumber them 4:1.
this just happened right before the revolution
unfortunately the Communist Party fell apart with the revolution and the communists (including Karl Marx, who moved to the US 10 years ago) joined with the "People's Party" which is led by an ethno-nationalist representing the yeoman farmers.
thinking about returning to an autosave
i have no earthly idea how vic 3 calculates what land is taken over by rebels
i think it takes the interest groups that are revolting and determines the states with the highest proportion of those IGs. evangelicals and southern planters are prob why the south joined the counterrevolution, and the petit bourg rebelling caused the northeast and some of the Midwest to join too. Pennsylvania only stayed loyal bc they’re my capital