10.01.2010, 23:20
While I realize that this is a what if scenario, the fact that you think those factories in the South would have been around without financing from Northern banks, or without help from the Federal Government is a bit naive.
And there was a reason that Lincoln fought so hard to put the country back together. "United we stand and devided we fall." A seperated United States would have produced two terribly weakened countries, both open to Military and economic invasion. And without any industry whatsover, the South would probably have come out on the raw end of the deal. It's one of the major reasons the South lost the war.
While I don't mind the what if thing, sometimes...it has to have at least some believability for it to work for me.
I'm positive, that years after the South had won, there would have been so much economic strife, that both countries would have eventually signed an agreement, and pulled back together again.
And there was a reason that Lincoln fought so hard to put the country back together. "United we stand and devided we fall." A seperated United States would have produced two terribly weakened countries, both open to Military and economic invasion. And without any industry whatsover, the South would probably have come out on the raw end of the deal. It's one of the major reasons the South lost the war.
While I don't mind the what if thing, sometimes...it has to have at least some believability for it to work for me.
I'm positive, that years after the South had won, there would have been so much economic strife, that both countries would have eventually signed an agreement, and pulled back together again.