Not exactly my argument, but not that far off. The South would have come to dominate the Western and border states, and those would have eventually come into it's political orbit, but none of this would have happened immediately. It would have taken decades.
Lincoln knew the threat that the South posed, and that's why he knew he had to keep places like Kentucky and Missouri from joining the South. Had those gone, others would have eventually gone too.
DiogenesLamp: "Not exactly my argument, but not that far off.
The South would have come to dominate the Western and border states, and those would have eventually come into it's political orbit, but none of this would have happened immediately.
It would have taken decades."
Important to note, in this long-running debate between central_va & others, that DiogenesLamp is on the "others" side, which posits a much more robust victorious Confederacy than central_va will admit.
Indeed, DiogenesLamp admits "it would have taken decades" but will not just yet admit the other necessary event: "Civil War II".
Had Confederates won the first Civil War there would have been a second to decide the fates of such other North American nations as "the Bread Basket" and "the Empty Quarter".