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Will...if the CSA had won, there would be 2 seperate countries. Not one. The objective of the South was to gain independence, not conquer the North. The South could easily have won the war, and damn near did, by convincing the Northerners that the price was simply to high, and remove their will to fight. If McClellan had won the 1864 election, or if Lee had defeated Meade at Gettysburg, or if England and France had formally recognized the CSA as an independent country, then South Of The Border would now mean the Mason Dixon Line, and not the Rio Grande. The "North" would have gone on about their business, with no interference from the now formally recognized Confederate States of America.
And slavery was most certainly not "all but gone within decades of the end of the Civil War" in the South. Eli Whitney, and his Cotton Gin, saw to that.
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