Revisionist History: What If the South Had Won the Civil War? (Editorial)

What I love the most is the south’s cry of “states rights” being what the fight was about. Once the war started that went out the window. The csa was completely a “big” government ideology, wether it meant to be or not. Almost immediately after the war began Davis and his traitorous cronies realized that if they were to have any chance they needed to centralize the gov’t, by instituting a draft of soldiers, taxing all goods...it was a contradiction of their cause and they knew it! The governors of Alabama and Mississippi were so harsh in their criticism of Davis and Benjamin that they refused to send anymore troops, and thusly were threatened with removal by the “big” government unless they complied. While the south probably never meant for it to become so, it did happen. Had the south won, you would be looking at very much the same kind of gov’t we have today. Regardless of that, the south did not win, they had no chance...out-manned and out moneyed. They would have become nothing more than a protected colony of England until the Union took it back.

No, the south and the North would not go to war with each other because they might have different laws than each other. I am a great, great, great, great grandson of a Confederate soldier and he would have been proud of this country, if the south would’ve won the civil war, but I am mixed with black and white origin, but I am proud of my Confederate heritage and I am proud to be a Virginian in my heart.

No, the south and the North would not go to war with each other because they might have different laws than each other.

Wrong. The underlying causes of the war, having to do with expansion of slavery into territories, would still have existed; and there would have been much less reticence to fight about them the second time.

I’m from Boston, and I can tell you I support the view that Civil War should have been avoided and the South should have been able to secede. My guess is that after a few short years, everyone would have realized it was a wake up call and figured it would have been best to keep our differences within our own states and merge back together for the good of the nation as a whole. So don’t assume everyone in the northeast is an elitist or refuses to see things logically :)

This is just a thought I would like to hear your opinion on. But if we had no WWII/ Hitler. Do you think our technology would be where it is today? I’m wondering this because, I thought if we didn’t scramble for victory and create all the death contraptions, then we wouldm’t have them today? input?

Had the South won the Civil War, then the competition over slave vs. free would have been sharper than before the war, and a second war would have been likely.

Due to industrialization and increasing numbers of European immigrants, the North would had crushed the South in the second war.

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