[Colonel Kangaroo]

Rebland wouldn't have lasted fifty years even had they won the Civil War. For one thing, there soon would have been a real war to the finish with the Americans. If the Confederate hotheads first went to war because they were afraid slavery would not be allowed to spread to the territories, they certainly would not stand by while a prosperous USA filled in the continental empty space with free states. Secondly a backward, feudal society would never survive the modern world. The Confederates did bad enough in the mid-1800s, but 20th century war would have been far beyond the CSA's capabilities. You can't build a modern nation while holding half of your inhabitants in bondage.

[stand watie]

you premises are FALSE, thus your argument, such as it is, falls of it's own ponderous weight.

absent the WBTS, OR with a dixie victory, slavery was DOOMED & wouldn't have lasted another 10-15 years. (my guess is, given the speed of the Industrial revolution coming to agriculture, that the "peculiar institution" would have died an UNlamented death in 5-10 years. take the PROFIT out of anything & in a free market, it DIES. the slavers were interested in NOTHING but $$$$$$$.)

as for expansion westward,what makes you think that an independent CSA wouldn't have spread to AR,CA,CO,NM, OK & perhaps other "unsettled areas" which are now states???

your "backward feudal society" comment is in a word: BUNK. the CSA, after winning her freedom, would have been a powerhouse of commerce, within a generation. GB & other countries would have RUSHED to trade with & invest IN the new country.

free dixie,sw

[mac_truck]

You can't build a modern nation while holding half of your inhabitants in bondage.

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