Without Lincoln, the CSA would have degenerated into another Mexico, except even worse because it would have maintained slavery for at least another generation. We would be dealing with the problem of poor, illiterate, confederates sneaking across the Mason-Dixon line just to find work in the US.
I beg to differ, Suh.
The CSA would nevah, I say NEVAH, degenerated to the point of drinking a li-cure made from the pulp of eviscerated plants while simultaneously licking sodium form the bodies of nubile brown skinned womyn!