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Interesting idea here: If the South had one. But one think that nobody is taking into account when trying to figure out where the US would be today, is foreign influence. Think about this. There are 2 possibilities: One. The south wins, and has a total takeover of the entire US, and two, there is an eventual cease fire, and the US is forever divided into NorthUS and SouthUS.
Assuming a total takeover, IF the US were to be able to progress as it had normally, what kind of involvement would we have had in WW1? WW2? Korea? Vietnam? Assuming that the Southern controlled government was still of the "confederation" type, I would liken it to a "prosperity by control" situation. I honestly think that a Southern controlled US may have not even become involved at all. Remember that Woodrow Wilson only won victory in 1916 by promising to stay out of the war. If someone else had been in office, our involvement could have gone either way, forever changing the course of WW1, and how the European countries would have ended the war....It's alot to take in if you consider all the possibilities. It may even have been possible that without US involvement, a total takeover of Europe could have occured, and then the US might have become a new target.
Now what if the US had separated into two different countries? With the above scenario, we could have faced a possible total takeover from a foreign government, for we may not have developed into the superpower that we are.
Just some food for thought here....
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