The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove
Awful book. Like something a child would have written. Also an apologetic for the South. I gave up on this one 41% at which point the South had won and they were arguing the country border. Lots of crap about States Rights. My one brother-in-law has a MS in history specializing in the civil war. The war was about slavery. The evidence is overwhelming that these people were willing to fight to the death in order keep slavery.

Yesterday they were fighting for slavery. Today they are Nascar and professional wrestling. They are Sarah Palin and George Bush. They are the tea party. They are the idiocracy.