[Gianni]

What you said does not answer the original point I made on if the pro-slavery South had gained a victory during the Civil War, slavery would have not only continued, but would have greatly expanded westward and northward.

No, that's not what you said. You said that had the South won the war, a pro-slavery dictatorship would have forced slavery on everyone coast-to-coast. I can see why you want to back away from that.

BTW, how do you propose that they could have forced people to own slaves?

[4CJ]

BTW, how do you [M. Espinola] propose that they could have forced people to own slaves?

Inquiring minds want to know.