“I’d like to believe though that the Southland would have been less intrusive, clung to States rights and less taxed.”
Not to be contrary, but the Jim Crow laws of the South were only repealed about 50 years ago, and only after being dragged kicking and screaming by the Civil Rights Act. So who exactly are you talking about when you say less intrusive, and less taxed?
We were discussing how it might be now had the South successfully seceded.
My point was how I thought it might have evolved to today.