>The etymological origin of anarchism is from the Ancient Greek anarkhia (ἀναρχία), meaning "without a ruler".
Are you free men or do you follow like sheep your ruler?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oday_Fc-Gc&list=RD7oday_Fc-Gc&start_radio=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacco_and_Vanzetti

They abolish slavery sometime around the early 20th century as the North outcompetes them economically, however, they remain independent, being completely taken over by warlording early 20th century Socialist and Anarchist movements lead by people who fled the industrial and overly capitalist Gilded Age Northern states (think people like Sacco and Vanzetti or Leon Czolgosz) in an attempt to create a socialist utopia by applying the Southern anti-federalist principles and taking it up to 11. They spend the first half of the 20th century as a violent shithole, but join the North against the Axis powers during the second world war and eventually coming under the power of an actually competent statesman where they end up a regional power and even have a small space program by the end of the 20th century