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Originally Posted by ratbastid
There's an amazing film called CSA: The Confederate States of America. It's a "documentary" about the history of the states after the South wins the Civil War, conquering all the way up to Washington DC and taking the White House.
There's a trailer for it at IMDB right here: IMDb Video: CSA: Confederate States of America
Pretty amazing piece of work. It has Lincoln being smuggled out of DC in blackface, escorted to the Canadian border by Harriet Tubman. It follows history up to the present day, including some really shocking stuff that takes off from real history. Did you know that the confederates had a plan to conquer Central and South America after their victory? In the movie they do it, and sugar replaces cotton as the main confederate cash crop--and needless to say, both the demand and availability of slaves skyrockets.
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I think I've seen this and I about had a fit when I did. Frankly, whoever wrote it was an imbecil and did not understand the nuances of antebellum Southern life. The premise focused far too much on the racial divide(i.e. racial superiority) that really wasn't all that prevalent until Reconstruction. Much of the Ku Klux Klan and the real racial divides were created by policies enacted during Reconstruction. The Klan originally had black members and was meant as a rebellious movement to keep the Yankee carpetbaggers and the like out of the South. Read
Born Fighting by James Webb.
Also, the notion that slaves were slaves because they were somehow inferior is overblown. Hell, freedmen owned slaves, and 80% of the slave population of the South were owned by about 20% of the white population, mainly rich plantation owners in the tidewater regions of the South. There were more poor white farmers who couldn't afford slaves than there were rich landed gentry. Slaves were the backbone of the agricultural society, and had it not been for the cotton gin, the practice would probably have been done away with due to it not being economically viable.
As for what would happen had the South won, more than likely we'd have had two nations, one centered in the North with a stronger central government, and one in the South with a looser confederation of states, more in line with the Articles of Confederation than with the Constitution. This based on the fact that the War of Northern Aggression was more of a war of independence for the South than it was a civil war battling for control of the country. There's a wonderful little work of fiction on this very subject called
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EDIT: A quick guide to
flags of the CSA as this topic is a pet peeve of mine.