[Sakai07]

aviator is correct, the civil war was not at all about slavery. Lincoln used the issue as leverage after gettysberg (I think?) to inflict more of a strain on the southern economy, which was agriculture based and did depend on slaves in that aspect. If the civil war as we know it never happened and tensions simmered and brewed through the depression and into the rabid nationalism that existed shortly before WWII. In this setting, with military bases scattered all through the states and their hardware as well, would an imaginable 40's civil war be possible. Chances are, all this would have done is make it easy for germany and japan, in my opinion. These are my thoughts.