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To: central_va

If the South had been successful they would have become a neo-colonial outpost for Great Britain and France. They would have been an agricultural state in a world ruled by the Industrial Revolution. Lets say their strategy in 1864 worked out and Lincoln lost his bid for re-election. Their economy was in a complete shambles by that point. You do know it costs money, real hard currency, to maintain a large military establishment. The Confederacy lacked the economic heft to place it among the world’s great powers in the 19th Century. There would have been no need for for a foreign invasion. The British, French, and Germans would have just bought the place piece by piece.


47 posted on 12/31/2013 9:51:46 AM PST by gusty
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To: gusty
If the South had been successful they would have become a neo-colonial outpost for Great Britain and France.

You sir know nothing of southernrs, good day and get a clue.

48 posted on 12/31/2013 10:12:07 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: gusty

“They would have been an agricultural state in a world ruled by the Industrial Revolution”

Instead, they became States ruled by an extreme left-wing liberal North.


68 posted on 01/01/2014 10:57:06 AM PST by CodeToad (When ignorance rules a person's decision they are resorting to superstition.)
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