The thing is, did any such forces or factions exist prior to the French Revolution? I think what would be most interesting here is if the Stuarts found a counterpart movement in France to ally to, but it seems like the monarchies were too fundamentally different.
What if instead of directly laying claim to the French throne, they support one particular group of pretenders or another and get mixed up in local intrigue? Like White Russian emigres did during the interwar, backing local reactionary movements wherever they were in exile. Too bad they were a...
I don't know what that is, I just assumed a lot of anime and Japanese media had kooky things happening to Tokyo in the same way stuff always happens to New York in American fiction.
For the record, this is where I got the idea from, but I could I imagine this sort of thing might also happen in other anime
https://rahxephon.fandom.com/wiki/Tokyo_Jupiter
Honestly I just posted it there because I couldn’t be bothered to make yet another thread specifically for Twitter non-meme AH content.
I uh, ???
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-history-pods-that-go-hard.551511/post-25046672
I feel like the American characteristic of the First Amendment making anyone leery of declaring anything that even sounds like an established church (despite American religiosity being relatively higher than most other western nations) aside, perhaps a Church of America / Church of United States...
In the context of the OP premise maybe the state would receive some sort of indefinite martial law that lasts a couple of years, rather than actual neo-reconstruction. That said my statement snidely referring to recent happenings at Ole Miss the university itself, not the state. Which I will not...
Guess the Southern apologist sockpuppet went bye-bye. "Reconstructionist fetishism" may be a dumb meme, but given recent events, perhaps Ole Miss should've been reconstructed in the '60s. And that's all I have to say on that subject.