I'd be interested to get opinions on what the world would look like if the South had won. Would we still be separate nations, or would a reunion have been inevitable? I seriously doubt slavery would have continued indefinitely, and the European antics of the 20th century would have placed unique pressures on both a Confederacy and a separate Union....One of many questions: Would two nuclear nations now occupy what is now the U.S.? "If the South would have won we'd have had it made....
I'd probably run for President of the Southern States.
The day Elvis passed away would be a national holiday,
If the South would have won we'd have had it made."
Okay, maybe Hank Williams, Jr. isn't the best political analyst on this topic. I think we'd have stayed two nations, or more than two. With secession firmly established as a valid political strategy in both nations, either more states would split off, or the knowledge that they could would make other statesmen less inclined to push them. It would probably result in a decentralization of the federal governments of however many countries you eventually end up with.
As a side note, look what this libertarian web site had to say about the possibility of modern secession after the 200 election:
Breaking Up is Hard to Do
I guess that should be the 2000 election.
No less an authority than Dr. Walter Williams ( the self proclaimed very handsome former King of the Department of Economics at Geo. Mason Univ ) has recently called for a divorce most civil-while that is still possible! He wrote a very serious column about this and it did not sound so very strange. That is scary.
Poor ol' Bocephus. Your remark about him is putting it more mildly than I thought possible. I knew an old boy in Texas who used to say of Hank Jr., " If his mama had of named him Clarence he'd have been SOL". ;-)
The boy sure needs the name. He would have starved without it.