Slavery, or something like it, could have lasted a very long time.
And the notion that we'd end up where we are today if the Civil War had gone the other way, is a dubious one: things could have turned out very different indeed.
Still, it sounds like a dumb idea for a television show.
Like it or hate it, the movie C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America already dealt with a similar premise back in 2004 about as well or as poorly as could be expected.
Cotton growing wasn’t mechanized until the 1940s.
True, but that had more to do with the lack of capital and the break up of the large plantations after the war than with any lack of technology. Mechanized farming was invented (or maybe copied) in Virginia by McCormick and swept through the Midwest almost a century earlier.
That movie could have been good and was unwatchable.
I think this is a concept that could work if you can just cut out the endless desire to “send a message” about modern life. Just follow it logically.
The two show-runners actually do basically do that in GOT to some degree. There isn’t a lot of meta-messaging in there.
I’ll certainly watch an episode or two, but HBO series but have been hit or miss at best lately.
A mechanical Cotton picker was developed back in 1850. Perhaps if the entire industry wasn't destroyed by the Civil War, it would have been developed further before 1940.
Slavery, or something like it, could have lasted a very long time.
Between 20 and 80 years longer is my estimate. After that, it would simply have been nonviable.
And the notion that we'd end up where we are today if the Civil War had gone the other way, is a dubious one: things could have turned out very different indeed.
Well, we wouldn't have had that war with Spain. We wouldn't have gotten involved in World War I, and that would have prevented World War II from occurring. The Holocaust wouldn't have happened, nor would all the deaths from World War II. The Atomic bomb likely wouldn't have been developed as early as it was, if ever.
Those are the directly traceable elements to US use of Military in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Who can say what would have been the indirect consequences of the North and South separating? Perhaps archduke Ferdinand would not have been shot, and all the millions killed as a result of World War I would have been prevented as well.
Actually, I don't see how things could have turned out much worse than they did in our current historical timeline. Very bloody was this timeline.
Like it or hate it, the movie C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America already dealt with a similar premise back in 2004 about as well or as poorly as could be expected.
Never heard of it, and I have never seen it. I predict it was probably told in a manner that simply agrees with the confirmation bias of modern people from the North East, as are most movies nowadays.
In other words, more propaganda intent on convincing everyone that the right thing was done when the North invaded and killed people.