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Originally Posted by willravel
Slavery was the staple of our economy at the time. The textiles up North, also being profitable, would have continued to develop and I suspect that slavery would have made it's way into industry. Ultra low wage workers in factories would have given the US a distinct competitive edge. Eventually there probably would have been a rebellion from the non-whites which have become strong and skilled and the US would be primarily black. The international banks would have had more trouble moving in being run by white people, which the black people of the US would not trust, and the Great Depression wouldn't have happened. This would have primed the US to enter the World Wars quicker with more armament and we would have won sooner. Under president Martin Luther King Jr., the US would have had peace talks with the Soviet Union and avoided everything from Korea to Vietnam to the Mujahadin (meaning no modern day Taliban or al Quaeda).
In other words, I have absolutely no idea and it seems that there's not enough information to guess.
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Wait, so you're positing slavery in the NORTH? That had been outlawed in most of the northern states in the 1820's or earlier. I can't imagine it being reintroduced in a post-war atmosphere.
The South was selling the majority of their goods to Europe anyway, and the Northern textile factories weren't yet geared to take advantage of those goods. Neither the northern nor southern blacks had any capital to begin with, so I fail to see how international banking would have had any impact at all. The Great Depression was not a solely American affair, and it was in part brought on by the post-WWI surpluses. In this world, does WWI even happen? I can make an arguement that it does not, or at least realigns the Entente and Alliance.
And will, you're going to have to explain to me how a black resident/slave/citizen/whatever of the CSA becomes POTUS.
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Originally Posted by dc_dux
Strom Thurmond would probably have won the 1948 presidential election on the States Rights Party.......scary thought.
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Assuming that the CSA is reabsorbed and that South Carolinians even have a vote.