Hypothetical question: how would it have looked today in 2007 if the South had won the American Civil War?

Question

So far not very satisfactory answers. Come on somebody, put your "real" imagination into work.

Answer 1

Watch the Spike Lee movie "The Confederate States of America" thats what its about..

Answer 2

Well to start, we would have two nations in one. There would be the United States of America (consisting of about 20+ states) and the Confederate States of America (consisting of the other 20+states.) More than likely we would of not have added Alaska and Hawaii or some of the later states due to indifferences in the country. They would have became independent territories on their own.
I imagine the north would be as advanced in technologies as we are today due to the need for having to have machinery to do our work.
The south would have more than likely failed due to the dependency they had on slave labor and plus due to sanctions and other trade limits that would of been imposed upon them from the North and other countries. I also think the south would be less technologically advanced because of the slave labor. They would figure there would be no need for technology to replace what slaves are already doing.
More than likely, the result from the turmoil of the two nations living side by side and being completely different would result in a constant chaos of wars and skirmishes which would eventually lead to the downfall and complete destruction of both countries and we would have became a nation that would of succomed to the Marxist movements of the early twentieth to mid twentieth century. Therefore, if the south had won the Civil War they would of not only changed a nation but they would of changed a world too.

Answer 3

to answer that would take volumes, but there are several obvious points

Slavery would still be long gone, it was already dieing out by the Civil War, it was no longer economically feasible.

the CSA would be a vast country of much land and little wealth. Even during the CW the CSA was looking south to annex Mexico and much of south America.

As an agrarian based economy, they would have grown very strong for the rest of the 19th century, but by early 20th century would have lost most of there economic base and the expansion of manufacturing economy would have been attempted, and probably failed just as it did when northern factories moved south in the 70's and 80's

and lots lots more

Answer 4

I believe a second "Civil War" if you will would have broken out in ~1939 with the Confederate states allying with Hitler and Mouselini. The North would have been too occupied with fighting the South and the Japanese to be able to help Britain or Russia very much, so those two nations may well have fallen to the Nazis, causing a completely different ending to the second world war. Just a guess, but fun to think about.

Answer 5

It is very hard to answer this. In the short run what was left of the United States would have developed as an important country based on its industrial strength but would likely not have become a dominant world power. The Confederacy would have been a regionally important power in the Caribbean and Latin America. Slavery would have lingered on for another generation until technological change and international opinion made it untenable. Beyond that, too many unknowns.

Answer 6

The North would be the most enlightened, liberal, peaceful country in the world. The south would still be stuck in the dark ages with an socioeconomic paradigm rooted in slavery, feudalism, and nepotism. Consequently they would be perenially near bankruptcy as thier agricultural economy would be at a competitive disadvantage against the North. Additionally, the influence of the Soviet Union would still exist, though without a united America it would have spread across Asia, though probably be stymied by the Islamic Facism that, even in real history, shaped it's revolutionary idealism in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan and the other Russian satellites. Since the muslims would be fighting Russia, America would be lacking an opponent, and all the dumb southern hicks who join the Army because they can't get into college would be sent to Mexico to shoot at the drug lords whose drugs their contrymen consume so voraciously. The effects of this conflict are hard to predict because it hasd no parallel in this reality, but it would be unlikely to affect the North, where recreational drugs would have never been criminalized in the first place without the southern-rooted tobacco and alcohol lobby to ply congress with tar-stained dollars.

Answer 7

Not very good at all. The nation would have been turned into several nations and then be a lot like Eurpe. France and England would have waged war to claim part of the land.

Some times things do work out for the better.

Answer 8

i think that it would have been very similar to Athens and Sparta with south eventually dying out because of Indias introduction into the cotton industry and their lack of industrialization to make goods to farm. The southern economy was so dependent on one single raw good that it would have soon died out and either become another mexico or reintigrated into the north.

Answer 9

Balkanized

Answer 10

The difference in American military uniforms and rank insignia.