FRistory: What If In History ...

4-8-18 | Eagles Field

[Eagles Field]

It’s 1864, The South has won the Civil War. How does this change the pages of history?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The country splits into two parts, neither of which can resist the aspiration of foreign powers. The South eventually becomes part of Mexico, and the North once again comes under control of Great Britain.

[Fhios]

Read some books written by Harry Turtledove. He has a whole series about alternate history based on that very subject.

[onedoug]

I doubt we would have been up to taking on the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis.

[Alberta's Child]

I'd say it's more likely that the U.S. would have ended up a lot like Canada today -- a weak (on a global scale), loosely unified country where much more power is vested in the provincial/state governments.

Ironically, in many respects Canada is probably much closer to what the Founders of this country envisioned than what the U.S. has become since the Civil War.

[jjotto]

‘The Calamity of Appomattox’ by H.L. Mencken

[gattaca]

bmp

[dsrtsage]

Wouldn’t have had industrial then technological revolution. People generally want to avoid mindless, strenuous work such as fetching water from miles away or working in mosquito encrusted fields. When you have slaves to do these tasks there is no reason to innovate to minimize the energy and resources to complete tasks. If there are no slaves, people will first provide services to those willing to pay. Over time, they will innovate and create technologies that allow them to provide those services at the absolute minimum cost and use of resources.

[SkyDancer]

And Jimmah Carter says we didn’t really have to fight for our independence from England and points to Canada/Australia/New Zealand as proof. Yeah, right Jimmah - look at them now.

[southland]

Bkmk

[BenLurkin]

More apt and more plausible.

What if the North conceded defeat after First Bull Run.

[eclecticEel]

The aristocratic plantation society wouldn’t survive, and would probably collapse within a generation; after which the USA/CSA would reunite. The ascension of American as the leading industrial nation would probably be delayed.

[rockrr]

The only way that could have ever happened is if a gigantic asteroid had hit the northern seaboard. Result: calamity all around.

[null and void]

We lose the Revolutionary war.

Slavery ends in 1833 when the British Empire bans it...

[southland]

We would have repulsed an invasion from Mexico and Central America.

[dfwgator]

One thing to consider is that when Germany united in 1871, they would have had an eye for gaining influence in the Americas, would they have reached out to the CSA?

[KamperKen]

There was the 1961 novel by MacKinlay Kantor, “If the South Had Won the Civil War”.

[USS Alaska]

I’d lease jesse and keep him in the bushes. Being from the losing side, I think that Yankees couldn’t own slaves, but we could lease them from the winners.

[The Great RJ]

There is a fake documentary, Confederate States of America that offers a very funny look at America in the 1990s where the South had won the Civil War. It was available on Netflix. Historic events were given a very satirical twist. For example on December 7, 1941 it was Confederate forces that bombed the Japanese fleet in Tokyo Bay.

[King Moonracer]

The north soon discovers warp technology and moves among the stars. The south discovers decaf coffee.