[Colonel Kangaroo]

If the Confederates had won we would have had two corrupt national capitals instead of just one.

[central_va]

If the Confederates had won we would have had two corrupt national capitals instead of just one.

Umm, the South is the conservative part of the USA in case you hadn't noticed The South would not be as corrupt as the Northern union. That is a preposterous statement you made. We would be 10 times better off without the swill of the North.

[jeffersondem]

“If the Confederates had won we would have had two corrupt national capitals instead of just one.”

That is an interesting comment - one that clashes with the often-heard view that had the South won the Confederacy would have soon fallen apart as quarreling southern states separated over this, that, and the other.

Your view that a Confederate victory would have resulted in two permanent nations with two competing models of government has appeal to those who believe that government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed and not from bayonets.

If there were today two competing models of government from which to choose, perhaps Americans would not now be in desperate need of a second political party.

The “two permanent nations” view also rejects the idea that the Soviets would have won the Cold War because the north would not have joined the south to defeat socialism/communism.

[DiogenesLamp]

If the Confederates had won we would have had two corrupt national capitals instead of just one.

There may be some truth in this, though the possibility exists that the Confederacy would have eventually overwhelmed and absorbed the USA.