[Nowhere Man]

The war saved lives. If the rebels had won, WWI would have had its branch in North America, and millions of US and pretended confederate soldiers would have fought and died then too. By contrast the 11 million killed in WWII had only about 100,000 US soldiers.

You've been reading Harry Turtledove's "Southern Victory" series, haven't you? Good series. It's tough to say about WWI and so on. There was one alternate scenario written in 1960 where both the South and North were on the same side in WWI, so who knows?

[donmeaker]

Actually, no, I never read that series. I read one counter-factual ‘guns of the south’ which postulated time traveling South African racists with AK-47s. I didn’t care for it.