1. I was born in Atlanta, Ga, and raised in Texas.
2. Slavery was evil.
3. The South lost and we are all the better for it. Get over it.
4. The last eight presidents have all been from the South or the West. Except Ford, who doesn't count.
5. We have all the jobs, and we don't have to shovel snow.
6. Stop your insecure whining. No one cares.
That is your opinion; you have every right to your opinion. I don't agree with you.
Slavery issue aside, had the Confederate states been successful in establishing their independence, it would have opened the door to future secessions. We would almost certainly have had a separate nation on the West Coast, for example (California and Oregon were talking about just such a thing). Before long, the United States would have totally disintegrated and we would have ended up looking like Central America - a bunch of failed republics ruled by despots and military leaders.
It's a damn good thing we were able to reunite this country and put the Civil War behind us (at least most of us). Otherwise, we wouldn't have been in position to stop Hitler and Imperial Japan in WW2. The world would be a totally different place today - for the worse.
Nuff said. You're dismissed. I made the nearly fatal mistake of living in that liberal, Yankee Hell-hole for over a year.
The end of slavery in this country would have been an inevitable consequence of the industrial revolution whether or not slavery was legal. Once concentrated sources of power became available, they became much cheaper than slaves which--even after they were bought--had to be fed, clothed, sheltered, and otherwise provided for.
Aside from its acceptance of the already-installed (and already-obsolescent) institution of slavery, what else do you find objectionable about the Confederacy?