[JamesP81]

Before we drag out Harry Turledove's crappy alternate history novels of the civil war, I would like to point out that most political pundits can't predict what's going to happen in world affairs for the coming year, much less a century down the road. And yet, we have people here doing just that.

The truth is that nobody in here knows what would've really happened if the South had won the civil war. And there is no possible way to know.

[Wallace T.]

The truth is that nobody in here knows what would've really happened if the South had won the civil war.

However, it is not unreasonable to make an educated guess. Irrespective of whether the states had a right to leave the Union in 1861, the fact is that the United States would have been dissolved into two or more separate countries at a time when the European powers were at their maximum expansion was underway.

[justshutupandtakeit]

We may not know what exactly would have happened but only the foolish believe the destruction of the United States would have done any Good.