Mark Lovett
Jul 20, 2017 · 1 min read

The premise doesn’t work at all. The Confederacy wouldn’t have survived the full length of the Industrial Revolution. Economically it would’ve collapsed as it only provided raw materials and had no way to move up the economic development ladder. Sooner or later, the CSA would’ve encountered a commodity market collapse and would need a European patron just to stay afloat (I could see an ascendant Germany in the late 1800s). At which point the Union would’ve invaded and destroyed the CSA completely. The outcome would’ve been akin to the complete victories in the Mexican-American and Spanish-American Wars.

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