her anger. While she always tries to keep from letting her anger go wild, she usually fails and ends up exploding into some kind of temper. Once she gets angry, she has problems letting go of it and thus ends up staying angry for a long time. One episode could ruin her entire day. She tends to hold grudges for a long time, even after whatever caused the grudge had passed. She also gets flustered and embarrassed easily, and often has issues dealing with these emotions, getting tongue-tied and frantic.
The Confederacy is fiercely independent and always likes having her way, even if it seems weird or strange to others.
While she can speak in perfectly fine and legible English, having to learn due to diplomacy, Dixie prefers to speak in a heavy southern accent to "express her nationality". She also knows a bit of Spanish and Creole, other languages spoken in the South.
History: The Confederate States of America was formed when several southern states (beginning with South Carolina) decided to secede from the Union (the United States of America.) Many events led up to the secession, mostly having to do with the issue of slavery and states' rights, causing increasing tensions between north and south. The states that seceded: South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, and Tennessee – formed the Confederate States of America on February 8, 1861. (The Confederacy also unofficially included Kentucky, Missouri, and Arizona territory). The Civil War began not soon after, the North fighting to preserve the Union, and the south fighting to protect their new country. The Union eventually won the Civil War, ending with General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia's surrender in Appomattox. The Confederacy dissolved May 5, 1865, and the southern states were gradually reabsorbed into the Union.
The Confederacy was altogether not very successful as a country. Two world powers at that time, Britain and France, considered recognizing the CSA as a country but eventually did not, since doing so would immediately declare war on the US. Also, the CSA's constitution and its laws put heavy emphasis on states' rights, but in the end, this was essentially their downfall. Some states, such as North Carolina, responded badly to demands from the president of the CSA (such as enlistment) and thus strangled the country's war effort.
The Confederacy had a subtropical climate with long humid summers, perfect for growing crops such as cotton and tobacco, two huge cash crops of the South.
Perceptions of Others: The Confederacy knows relatively few nations other nations, due to her short-lived time as a country. The nation she is most familiar with is America, and she hates him to death. She holds a very deep-seating grudge against him for placing so many tariffs on the South and defeating her in the Civil War. The fact that all the states that made up the Confederacy were absorbed back into the Union only made her angrier, but she's pretty much accepted she'll never become a nation again and takes out her anger on America in ways other than trying to re-rebel, although she does occasionally try to steal some of his States back. The one thing she refuses to do is call him "America," commenting that, "He isn't the only country in America, you know!" Instead, she prefers to call him "Union" or just "US", and when she's mad at him (which is often), "You Yankee b*****d." She also has big, although slightly lesser, grudge against all the Union States. The CSA has a good relationship with all the Southern States, especially Virginia, and visits them all regularly, sometimes even claiming them to be her kids instead of America's. While she is still slightly sore that England and France refused to recognize her as a country, she doesn't
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